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18764963 No.18764963 [Reply] [Original]

Hoff makes a lot of claims in this book that sound anti-intellect and anti-education.
>Why listen to the news? What’s that going to teach you?
>There’s nothing you can learn that’s worth learning that nature couldn’t teach you
>you’re being taught about the wrong things, learn the “health effects of nuclear power”

Is this just Hoff or is Taoism actually against learning?

>> No.18764971

>>18764963
>>Why listen to the news? What’s that going to teach you?
It isn’t anti-intellectual or anti-education to recognize the news is just propaganda

>> No.18764983

>>18764963
>“health effects of nuclear power”
qrd? that sounds like trolling

>> No.18765011

>>18764983
Hoff drops that statement twice in the book and never delves any deeper into it. He just says it and doesn’t explain further

>> No.18765084

>>18765011
At the time he wrote this three mile island had just happened, there was no need for him to go into more depth, it would have been redundant and condescending. We were facing an aging nuclear power system and little was being done to improve and update it. Nuclear power at that time was literally designed around the building of bombs, not efficient power generation, as a result it was producing huge amounts of highly toxic waste that served no purpose. It was literally a byproduct of the war, we have been able to build much better reactors from a power generation standpoint for decades but they were not as good when it came to producing weapons grade material. In the US this all created a stalemate in progress with regards to nuclear power generation and as a result we still have the same ancient system. Learn Context.

>> No.18765816

>>18764963
its not anti-intellectualism, its pro-understand-what-you-are-doing-is-most-likely-for-entertainment-value-you-are-not-becoming-smarter-you-pseud-fuck

>> No.18765826

>>18764963
A taoist that is anti-intellectual!? It's unthinkable!

>> No.18767650

He also says managers aren't human
WTF guys!?! I'm freaking out rn