Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-07-04 22:31 | Report Abuse

Vaccine inoculation, the answer and cure for poverty?

In trying to explain the religious world’s intellectual laggardness, it is tempting to point to the obvious factors: authoritarianism, bad education, and underfunding (religious states spend significantly less than developed states on research and development as a percentage of GDP).

At a deeper level, religiosity lags because it failed to offer a way to institutionalize free inquiry. That, in turn, is attributable to its failure to reconcile faith and reason. In this respect, religious societies have fared worse not just than the West but also than many other agnostic societies.

With a couple of exceptions, these countries have been inadvently ruled by an autocrat, a radical sect, or a tribal chieftain - without rational tradition of separating politics and religion.

Posted by EngineeringProfit > 2020-07-05 09:09 | Report Abuse

The Bitter Truth of the 21st Century: Cognitive plasticity and ideas are wealth and money; while lacking of these perpetuates poverty

If we want to inoculate society against the harms of fundamentalist, we must start thinking differently about their brain effect. When a fundamentalist ideology inhabits a host brain, the organism’s mind is no longer fully in control. The ideology is controlling its behavior and reasoning processes to propagate itself and sustain its survival. This analogy should inform how we approach efforts that attempt to reverse brainwashing and restore cognitive function in areas like analytic reasoning and problem-solving. Without analytic reasoning and problem-solving abilities, badly in debt and poverty stricken nations can only fall of the cliff sooner pr later - no matter how rich in their natural resources!