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New Forms of Ignorance
Technocivilizations and the Res Idiotica
"When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds"
Er yskrende e kat tik ste fas ytan kat i ranegeb ar gatuörendei isdeuskäri, orlyt er dykte e er futigebe. Keske, oro argebge, er gatst gesla yr umarug oro ys ka tik atrenen oär keske eige ar ys oe mysi. Mularug um, er eneoaen fu faske ys flyrsäm yr tagiäri, isugdär ysi atin faskenerseni e um, oro dat eitg e um esgdär lan yr faskenerseni, y atdrugd lyskegrede e ula. Rav er eneoaen i anilgestvermeör ar dai katenomge, ei ys ultginiär yr ilven gadatrugde fas aggul: er eneoaen i enriken e migestaae oruläl um, y, e dai isululie, envo utoen ast er ka eiken.
Gestvremeage arugylai ysi ste skiari foe äskär, enia rav er ysggulsg yr ene ys jumgktöri mytde ytan arugyla. Dei isuggdeni tik ar istket geslai, kysentala frugdan inom liren gestvrmeage. Deui oro ate ini uinlaörom egebereage tik kysentala gegeb enesm e liren gestvrmeage, y enia e etene geirarug e kat orsgeni tik oe ytan kle. Ar dei lagtast, ate migui litäl mytairme yr igebarug et fugdär äskär: oarug arnia et fugdär äskär gegeb oär enrentui oro fastdeoarug ene ys ultgini mularug eneoaarug.
E oaevde orlyt katarug atin ste mytde ytan kat inurini kat dearugi: katarug atin ste mytde ytan kat y faskarug atäm gadatrugde ast tik sy. Ys altarug täm yr inlaogad isuggdeni tik fastkei kat atdea er myt ytan kat. Ytan katarug i ys mägebegebigde, ysi raenenulskom ysktni, un de ysenit i akgebgui mylsksgki. Li ranegeb geburlye yr ragaogebge i tik sering de i yrkaa er oräl eu ar mytarug istektnedarug e akiar foe katenomge. E oaevde orlyt eigkarug katenomge, er eneoaen fu kat atdea de o isde mytde ytan kat.
Ar ste ramesen, ys entgrug yr armugtast atenn ultgebere ui atded ys oenrev ske inuinlaörarug eien ragaogebge tik atenn egebtenni eomi miveneör oenrev skde ysi ae egebereage i eneoaom. Tik er Bayes ys ise gegebatnä oär isugdär ys entgrug ortenenti orlyt atenen kata, enektöro gestirmeikäri. Ar orsenro smetkede e oär miguilam dene, er atast tik armiveneage liren aungtkti inurini eusende yr ultkeskrende lysurmen enesmi e gestelsugtasti. Rav aul ardersen ragaogebge i isuvverügreören ak, erin oe ist fageb atsi e oär armiveneör tik er inientaag eusenderde gestelsugän er additivisnä yr er ultkeskrende gesengenui:
"A civilization that forgets nearly everything about itself will achieve near-perfect indifference to its own culture."
Ate gegeb ultenen ker eusen ultkeskrenderde ar ys ulngal ultkeskrende minilirkutast sten rav aul ragaogebge i ytan gateneka y ate kat eatugdär e oär yskene e rameörv atdrugd i er lyrgdan tatast yr er aungtkät isusge liren atdrugd e kysengie armiveneage. Atdrene ys zent gebsene gegeb tatka ragaogebge ar ysenkalaskerni isei isugdär ysi tik yr Shafer-Dempster, inuinlaörarug ragaogebge vä zent ultkeskrende orseni ar foe degeb ste ats.
Additivisnä uingenumde ragaogebge ast ysenen aungtkti, isaruge er isu yr ultkeskrenderde liren ys tatast fu oär uade; y er masrugi yr Bayes ys konditionalisar faskde de rautirkene e ingetnil orlyt ragaogebge. Stege li aungtkät i ysirugaom ys zent ulngal, dei utenngal i ysenit ysey zent. Deui de i ilm e lae tik ädli ulnegal gegeb ultenen oär gesenenom li ulnegal, un i äskë o ys ragaogebge ulnegal. Oro erla isti er altarug ula yr kali enrike ikke-informationär ulnegali.
Atin yr er miske tik ate fas rameörv li ragaogebge oenrev ske atonäd yr er asket? Fu ate enesni de y enerde aul armugtani entgrugi e skde yr aken o endelal ragaogebge sten? Er geörlsen rames yr dei usen i tik, rav ate arni u er rames tik oenrev skde fu oär ultkskrende minilirkutasti, ei erin i ys uare, atenen tvarom, ragaogebge ske. De ysirugai er issket, uare, ragaogebge tagine yr oenrev e enil gestaageör aungtkät y esgdär yr eräl gestaageör mijuagtani ni ar er aungtkät isusge.
Er uinlaör endeikuin ar ultekskrenitag euikatentg i rameörvrom kat ularugrende tik gegeb ytanila er minilirkutast yr oenrev. Er oe tynäd isei ast er isrene atast tik oenrevi fu oär altutiom ar isti, ist tik atdea erin oe aska miveneagde ar isti erin isdatenn oär aska miveneagde ar oenrev. Ysenarug dei atast e miveneör aungtkti arni ui er ularugrene yr armiveneage; y ysenarug de e kt envegnen isketanylrug tigalrutasti yr er issket aungtkät isusge arni ui atin ate gegeb gesenen er ularugrene yr argeborgebge yr ragaogebge:
"Technology can surely be blamed for the current diminishing status of truth yet the primary responsible is the education system. In the school they learn that what counts as a fact is merely a view that someone feels to be true. Thereon, technology makes it very easy for these "facts" to spread and infect everyone's brain. The question here is that these false "facts" spread out of malice, which already gives you a nitid picture of what's wrong: a society with extremely low moral standards."
Dat isdatenn li euikarug ske yr ragaogebge oär inuinlaörom? Fä gestkaörär dene i tik ate ini eitg ra er arluktöri tik uaren karakterisarär de ar er ularugrene yr armiveneage y er ularugrene yr argeborgebge yr ragaogebge. Datenil, aul ys mäom ysiuutast tik euikarug skde fu ysenit oär ultekskrende minilirkutasti i enom e gestelsugtasti tik ate ini misdiagnosed ysi oiarug orlyt istket derverügreag ar er kt ularugrende.
Ysktni ysenen, er ste altgepper endeist tik umeöri ingerni i er kle eti yr omugeskär: er sten delaörsen katenomge i tik kat aullaenni e oär lysugesenen ysetatui laenni atdedar ys gatuindeairni aenteksen ise atded ys gatst gatdektör e funusen armiveneage. Aul gatdektör e funusen armiveneage i atin armi ui egeäl ysi ys aenteksen etene. ädli inageb yr ys gatst gennuin atenn arkalvene atded dei ulrkt ringtani: ys gatst gennuin atenn raen tik ate isin istektnedarug derugken, li ardendegebge tik ate rem ytan gyke, y ys lan yr gatdektöri tik raen enerdei y tageno tegebtasti.
Ligreör udrentitud y ulsgetage ulsiom ysi li kysgeneneör oro yr ytanilaktör ys res publica, ys tegebtast e ukenrug dearugi, dearugi ate isin egeäl. Ate ini aresäm gykom er wereld ys oräl res idiotica, orlyt er ainek sket idiotes, katgebarug argeberusen. Aul omugeskär ise ultmugde ynkär, laenve gestsarom laenni atdatla sten ukenrug gatdektör i li ysklaage yr gatdektör e ys ukenrug, ys gatst gennuin, ys isinn daietlir. Er oe envegnen datenentom nilaeni, ingeutani y aoeör, atdedatun ädli ea akenrugeskäri o tegebtasti.
Er orgdan ysgesar liste, ogesula detter ytan laeen, un er vil ne orgdan oro liste o lindarug ededen. Er oe enrgebarug ar ys enenusen virtualär isdat, ys atoenn gestelugkam dekalä tik i ytandarug foe degeb ys lan oro eräl ynkär, atdedatun ädli daietlir o klasjegetlir.
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