Uneducated People Are Not As Well-Suited To The Rigors Of Responsible Citizenship As Well-Educated People

Alan: By definition, half of any population has double digit IQ.

It is true that "slow" people often have hearts of gold -- easily more kind generous than my own. But they are not as well equipped to make sound judgments than well-educated people.

This is emphatically the case (and ever more so) in knowledge and information-based economies.

"Stupid people are too stupid to know they're stupid."

Knowing how to acquire pertinent facts -- and then knowing how to prioritize "findings" and inter-relate pertinent data -- requires knowledgeable contextualization of facts that have been proportionately "weighted" in their overarching historical, cultural, scientific, sociological, political and religious contexts.

Mark Twain, Adolf Hitler And The Dunning-Kruger Effect

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/mark-twain-and-dunning-kruger-effect.html

It is not enough to have fact-free "feelings."

It is not enough to feel populist passion in your belly, particularly when contemporary populists are so easily enthralled by billionaire elitists who are smart enough to know that populists are stupid enough to applaud their own oppression.

It is necessary to avoid the enticements of consumerist seduction, mistaking "the acquisition of stuff" for "having a life."