Don’t we have enough monsters walking around?

According to a recent CivicScience survey, belief in Bigfoot and conspiracies in general has risen nearly 18% in the last two years despite the continued existence and progress of sciences.

There’s a method of receiving information called “repetition learning,” by which merely hearing and then repeating a piece of information takes on more veracity with every re-telling, factual or not.

Works on a micro-level, works on a macro-level.

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Kwek00 · 41-45, M

Kinda what happens when schools between 12-18 years old, are more focused on preparing their students for a job in the workplace. While time needed to developing: critical thinking, history and even political education ... you know stuff that prepares yourself for "life outside of the workplace", are pushed back. Because time is a limited resource, and a particulair second can only be consumed once. So yeah... eventually, that bites societies in the ass.