watched WEF video on "what is the fourth industrial revolution" - i almost went full AJ on the prof's ass but i decided to hold my tongue
then we moved onto implicit bias and discrimination now we are talking about multiculturalism and social justice
i haven't paid my tuition yet this term and i seriously might drop out. this is abuse.
Psychology and sociology will be the death of us all.
One of the biggest dumb things these people do is to socially and psychologically engineer. If you think it's about study it's not, it's about activism. These people come out of these courses and really thing they're social engineers or mental engineers (such for uses of the phrase mental engineering from the UN in the 50s, it's a real thing, back then they were more forthcoming with their language where as now it's all doublespeak).
Anyone with real basic experience with psychology knows the danger of predictions such as the "Fourth Industrial Revolution". That's because people then have a tendency to try to make it happen rather than letting what's meant to happen happen.
Self full-filling prophecy is one of the biggest problems in psychology. A very simple example is that if you don't believe you'll be good at something you'll never try and you'll never be good at it.
Psychology going on about future predictions from pundits or essentially prophecy is dangerous. Psychology is barely able to keep abreast of this very unique time in human history where we have a technological revolution where there's a new revolution every ten years or more than one massive change happening at once.
It hasn't even dealt with the huge shift from manual labour to office jobs and services meaning that where before you just had to be able bodied there's now a huge strain on the brain with people under massive pressure to be smart especially when job requirements are really unclear and complex.
There are parents who did things in their career that are now obsolete and they're very ill equipped to impart a great deal to their children on how to be successful. You have one generation only jobs.
In a service society where it's already really efficient to provide basic needs most people are working in what is really job creation to keep the system running and that exerts a huge toll on people doing jobs that are just churn and inexplicable as to what they're really doing.
Children today grow up spending most of their time watching 0.0001% of people with a kind of success you have no realistic chance of achieving and that either do useless or pretend jobs. Kids grow up seeing more of people pretending to be nurses than real nurses for example. At the same time we have western countries not training enough nurses.
Psychology and sociology are lower IQ courses because the universities need courses for lots of people so to make the maximum amount of money. I took a higher IQ course and I can tell even the highest IQ people are not equipped to trivially deal with all of societies problems and engineer the perfect system nor see the future.
All these real problems you won't hear about in these courses. Instead all they'll do is go on and on about the civil rights movement and absolute bullshit. They're failed academic fields and need to be simply removed like alchemy and astrology.
Psychology these days exists in two branches, as a vocational course to be a propagandist (marketing, lobbying, advertising, advocacy, politics, PR, journalism, etc) or in the medical industry (a drug dispensary rationing out happy pills to the population propagandists are making increasingly more unhappy and anxious, a sales person for drugs and surgical procedures).
i really appreciate your responses - you're really smart - wow.... i wish i could put my thoughts down in such a structured and concise way as this because it would pretty much be just like that!!!!!! thank you pede! even though I do feel kind of personally offended because my profession is low IQ but hey I like it i just hate the indoctrination camp.
Obsession with IQ is part of the psychological problem we have in our society linked to a switch away from manual and menial labour. Those fields are above average IQ but it's all relative.
Because most modern jobs require intelligence but it's very hard to say how much because they're not as simple or measurable as stacking bricks people are very sensitive or insecure about it so get caught up in psychological traps such as if they're not the best or lower than someone else they get defensive.
Society today is particularly vague along with peoples level in it. No one knows if they're good enough or worthy.
The irony is that the IQ of a computer programmer might be higher for example but that work is more discrete. There are problems in sociology that psychology that are really too hard for anyone on Earth but they feel like they're on the top of the world when they take on these professions which makes them over confident.
It's a bizarre twist of fate but you also have questions no one knows the answer to ending up in the easy courses because you can't get the answers wrong (a guess is a pass). This is at least one reason it becomes dominated with ideology or never-ending theory backed up only by more theory or confirmation bias.
It's easier to put things down and be cynical when you get older. Although these days literacy has changed. People are all used to writing short messages (tests and twitter) than reading entire books, writing long letters or writing on forums.
The humanities are the worse courses for indoctrination. Based on what I've seen they're more like anti-learning. They teach people to reject the things they need to learn and advance.
who are you? do you have a book? blog? how do you write this stuff so smartly and so quickly? maybe you are the robot