Why Smart People Fall for the Biggest Lies

 From The Vigilant Fox:

Modern education doesn’t make you smarter. It makes you easier to control. It’s why so many “smart” people can’t see what’s right in front of them.

It’s why so many told you to “shut up” and take the vaccine.

And things are this way for a reason. In 1903, a man by the name of John D. Rockefeller set out to redesign the American education system—not to create thinkers, but to manufacture obedient workers who would never question authority.

As Mattias Desmet says bluntly: “Our education and our training at school maybe teaches us more to think like everybody else than to think for ourselves.”

Once you read this, you’ll never think about school (or intelligence) the same way again.

Intelligence used to be understood as something very multidimensional. It included emotional, physical, intuitive, creative, and spiritual components.

Today? Only one thing matters. Intellectual intelligence—the kind that scores well on tests and follows the rules without asking questions.

This incredibly narrow focus has created an epidemic of smart fools—people who can solve equations but can’t see the reality around them or question what doesn’t make sense. (Read more.)