(April 8, 2012 at 9:24 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:(April 8, 2012 at 9:14 pm)padraic Wrote:I think I have seen enough examples to state that I think my "generalisation" is true.Quote:The educated people support populists to fill their own pockets.
The motivation is a strawman. Your sweeping,elitist generalisation was that [only/mainly] the uneducated support popularists ,without equivocation.
As a species ALL human beings are motivated by self interest above all else.
Plus, 'educated' is relative. What do YOU mean by 'educated' ? For many it means 'literate' ,for others it means having finished high school,for others a university degree. For me it means being literate,widely read,insatiably curious, having some ability in rational thinking,and the awareness that learning never ends. Formal education does not make a person 'educated' if that person has not learned to think and to question..
What I mean by educated is, a person that knows the exact circumstances regarding politicians, their history, their archivements, and so on. And their policies regarding the future of the country. I know quite a lot of people who are *educated*, like, they know how to take a triple integral, but they don't know half about our own country, let alone the rest of the world, than my father who didn't even finish high school.
I would argue that I, and many atheists here, are the evidence against such a statement. I.E. simultaneously intelligent and/or educated, as well as possessed of knowledge of their government.
