Most of this kind of reasoning relies on the non-obvious assumption that everyone must be educated, but this is not necessarily the case. Education is needed by a person only to the extent required to perform their professional activities; some 300 years ago in Europe, most people did not need reading and writing skills in order to successfully carry out their everyday work. After that, one should ask what percentage of the Earth’s population understood your article well enough to be ready to consciously accept or reject the ideas you propose. If, after this, as an ideal liberal, you add to the list of the greatest moral achievements of modern times the inalienable right of everyone to be a complete and utter idiot, while still retaining the ability to hold any public office and participate in any government procedures, then we arrive at a contradiction: how can people become liberals without understanding what liberalism even is?
On the other hand, utilitarianism is much easier to understand, and the right of the strong even more so.
It turns out that the most important technology leading us to freedom will be the one that gets rid us of idiots (of course not in the sense that they all need to be killed, but to improve the education system).
Most of this kind of reasoning relies on the non-obvious assumption that everyone must be educated, but this is not necessarily the case. Education is needed by a person only to the extent required to perform their professional activities; some 300 years ago in Europe, most people did not need reading and writing skills in order to successfully carry out their everyday work.
After that, one should ask what percentage of the Earth’s population understood your article well enough to be ready to consciously accept or reject the ideas you propose.
If, after this, as an ideal liberal, you add to the list of the greatest moral achievements of modern times the inalienable right of everyone to be a complete and utter idiot, while still retaining the ability to hold any public office and participate in any government procedures, then we arrive at a contradiction: how can people become liberals without understanding what liberalism even is?
On the other hand, utilitarianism is much easier to understand, and the right of the strong even more so.
It turns out that the most important technology leading us to freedom will be the one that gets rid us of idiots (of course not in the sense that they all need to be killed, but to improve the education system).