I think this young lady, if this is not a setup and she was coached, is wise beyond her years. I would, as she says, have to research the accuracy of her statements, but I think she fairly challenges the existing system. Specifically she is talking about banking and national debt in Canada. I think the logic and spirit of it applies to the banking and financial crisis in the U.S. and elsewhere.
On the share where I originally saw this, someone commented, "The world is complex. Not to try to understand this complexity makes you a fool!" This was in response to his view of a twelve year old girl oversimplifying an issue and others of us sounding off in a congratulatory manner.
The world on the whole, I agree, is very complex. Refusing to acknowledge complexity and thinking everything is easy to understand or has an easy solution or can be easily categorized does make people appear foolish. However, not everything is as complex as we sometimes make it out to be or as it is sometimes made out to be. Refusing to acknowledge that also makes people out to be foolish.
I think the majority of good con games go to one end of the spectrum or the other in regards to complexity. Some things that are too easy or too good to be true often are. People turn off their sensors because they want to believe and that bit of psychology is how they get played.
On the other end, a lot of the really good, and really long running, scams obfuscate the truth of something, especially through over complication. If we really saw the situation unfettered by layers of lies and misdirection, even a child could understand the con. I think a lot of intelligent people buy into some of these cons, like the banking system being discussed, because it is hard to fathom how so many for so long have been fooled, especially people seemingly brighter than ourselves. The people running the scam play off the psychology that the herd will think the herd leaders have already checked into all this confusing stuff. Also, individual people rarely want to stand out and be berated as foolish that they do not understand something. All of this plays into the hands of those running the scam.
Calling someone foolish or outright dismissing them for speaking out does not accomplish anything, least not education about or understanding toward an issue. In my opinion, the persons calling others foolish for doing that are arrogant and elitist at best and foolish pawns at worst.
Yes, there are issues that are documented and well understood and there are still people who are unable or unwilling to learn; one can only point those people toward the established knowledge and move on. However, I also think we must remain open that there might be someone who challenges the established knowledge with something new, and then that needs to be investigated, not dismissed and buried.
My personal opinion is that the mortgage crisis and banking crisis and much of the politics with nation states and corporate states are not unquestionable issues where someone, even a twelve year old girl, can not just say, with intelligent discourse, to open my eyes and stop being scammed. We should all question the issues until the issues are truly unquestionable. I do not believe that makes anyone foolish.
Thanks to +Gérard Foucher for the original post of this video and +Emilio Boronali for the share where I saw it.
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