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Originally Posted by Damien
People that just aren't engaged in politics at all, I've seen people who don't know who the PM is or what Labour and the Conservatives are. Not surprised to be honest.
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There's a staggering amount of that around and its not just ignorance of politics either. I listen to some of my son's mates and you have to wonder just where they've been and why so little of what's going on around them has sunk in, even if purely subliminally. Maybe it's down, in part, to a lifestyle which presents so many diversions of one sort or another. It's not just here either, the wife's family back home are seeing the same with their kids and younger people in general there. They spend vast amounts of time living virtual lives that they experience and are influenced far less by the reality.
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Originally Posted by martyh
A person shouldn't have to be engaged in politics at all simply a basic education should do the trick
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It should but clearly doesn't. Think back to when we were at school and the amount of research/reading you had to do to find information about a homework topic - scouring text books, going to the reference library etc. You couldn't just ask Mr Google, Ms Cortana or someone for the answers and accordingly we were picking up information even though we didn't know it and it wasn't necessarily directly relevant. Not only that but we were used to having to make that effort. Now, it's just so easy to find information with no effort that people have tended to become lazier when it comes to learning and accept the first answer the search result lists. What reason is there to learn something when you feel you can find out at the touch of a button if/when you need it? Being inquisitive isn't really necessary anymore.
Anyway, we're digressing, although ignorance certainly isn't new or limited to the younger generation, maybe the reasons for it have changed over time.
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Some people are so divorced from reality that unless it's on twitter or facebook they don't know about it.  |
and tend to believe it regardless of whether it's true.
So much access to information yet so much ignorance...