A study published recently in Science Robotics (Order today, operators standing by!) shows that
children aren’t just highly susceptible to peer pressure, but that they can be
easily persuaded by robots. The study, titled “Children conform, adults
resist,” was an experiment whereby European researchers sat down with 43 kids
aged 7 to 9, one at a time, at a table with three small humanoid robots. They
proceeded to ask the kids—and the robots— visual questions such as “which of
these lines is the same length as that one?” Turns out, when the robots all gave
a wrong answer, the kids would too. The study’s authors say the children were
“significantly influenced” by their robot
peers, to the point that 74 percent of the kids’ wrong answers were the same as
the robot’s wrong answers, word for word.
The
researchers also tested 60 adults, and they fared much better against the
robots. They wrote: “Adults do not appear to normatively conform to the
humanoid robots used in the study.” (I would suggest many if not most adults do conform to the ubiquitously
regurgitated opinions of the humanoid robots in the mainstream media).
Just as
the 60’s radicals took over key positions in the government, these kids will
someday, too. It has always been a source of amazement to me how easily the
ignorant are persuaded. When one doesn’t know history, declines to follow
current events, and therefore has no avenue to develop his or her own
considered opinions on matters of great import, one is easily led by the nose
to attest to the correctness of the views promulgated by one’s elite masters, who
themselves are often ignorant of the facts or simply choose to ignore or
obfuscate them in their pursuit of power.
Young
people are obviously blank canvases that will soak up the prevailing opinions
of their elders in positions of power and influence, such as those in the media
and academia. That those in these professions routinely try to squelch free
speech and chasten anyone who doesn’t agree with them is sick in and of itself.
What
this child abuse leads to is even worse: kids who are so docile and morally and
intellectually impoverished that they don’t have the courage to disagree with a
machine.
Witnessing
the extent to which so many are cowed by monolithic, robotic governments and
fashionably fascistic groups like the Mainstream Media, Big Academia, Hollywood
and antifa, one might say we are all childish now.
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