Originally Posted by
Tradewind
I never said that though. So why are you trying to bait me into an argument over something I never said?
I said that there's a difference between having access to information and being educated. Access to information is not the same thing as understanding it. Especially when information is being manipulated.
Ergo, it is fallacious at best to assume that Mr. 2016 is somehow more knowledgeable about the issues he faces today than Mr. 1716 did in his time. It's unprovable first of all, so there's that. It's also a ridiculous dichotomy, why not Mr. 1999, beating his computer up because Y2K is scary. Which makes it even more amusing that you're invoking subjective shit as "fact." But this is the internet after all...
Case in point, the people lauding this don't even understand the process.