(#4578) A sad ending for people who failed to learn

      It seems to me that those who don't hold to the science, logic, and common sense of things are the same people who in school didn't do their homework or copied off of others. You know the people who thought school was a joke, a punishment, or just a waste of their time? Well I have no doubt that it is these same people no matter how they arrived at their present state in life that still don't know how to study and learn. Those people who were slackers during their childhood and early adult years are the ones who are now unconvinced by science, logic, and common sense when it comes to the pandemic.
     They would rather cheat off of someone else's thoughts, like their local or national republican politician because so far those local or national politicians have steered them correctly in their own prejudices and economic theories. Well we who did study and did our own homework can figure out the proper process for dealing with a pandemic pretty easily. We don't need to copy someone else's thoughts but instead just follow scientific and logical guidelines with our own common sense as to our particular lives. The beauty of having a free thinking objective mind is that we can use it for whatever comes our way because we are not limited in how to think about reason, analysis, and conclusions. 
     I, at the time of my early education, would often get a bit angry at those who cheated to get better scores. But I quickly learned that I was actually learning while they were not. Which in a way made me a bit sad for them because they were cheating for scores but they were also cheating themselves out a opportunities to learn to think and act critically. The cheaters in life have become their own worst enemies in that they have inured themselves from the idea that knowing how to think for oneself is of any great value. So they follow their leaders who have led them and now they are paying the price. I still feel a bit sad for them but not as much as I should because it was those same people who have infected our society with their cheating ways to the point where we are a barely functioning democracy.