{"id":32193,"date":"2020-07-09T00:52:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T05:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=32193"},"modified":"2020-07-09T00:52:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T05:52:48","slug":"the-alien-observer-the-blind-are-leading-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=32193","title":{"rendered":"The Alien Observer: The blind are leading the blind"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our culture is intellectually broken. This might not seem important to most people. It might not even seem interesting. But if you can tell that we are somehow off course \u2014 in ways that are both large and small \u2014 you need to understand that we\u2019re off course because terrible ideas dominate the culture.<\/p>\n

You and I weren\u2019t adequately educated about ideas when we were young. I assume your education was similar to my own. I thought I was pretty bright simply because I was always ahead of my peer group in discovering information that schools rarely taught. But when I became an adult, I discovered that there were fundamental holes in my intellectual foundation. This is almost certainly true of you, too, unless you have gone back and educated yourself.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s time for us to stop accepting the idiocy that we are handed by a shallow culture. But until we understand why ideas matter, it\u2019s impossible to know where to start in understanding what\u2019s really happening in a broken and dysfunctional modern culture.<\/p>\n

(Some of you might notice that this is an updated version of something I shared last year<\/a> before I started this podcast.)<\/p>\n

Click or tap the \u201cplay\u201d button to listen. The Alien Observer is available by free subscription from all the major podcast directories. You can listen here or subscribe at the show\u2019s home page<\/a>.<\/p>\n