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When growing up someone was smart if they 'knew rocket science' or 'were great at math' or 'knew a lot of trivia'.

Now it's almost as if 'anyone is smart' and it's undefined how to measure it.

Ie if you "guessed" that the vaccines were going to cause damage and avoided them, then you're not smart, you're just a conspiracy theorist.

When growing up someone was smart if they 'knew rocket science' or 'were great at math' or 'knew a lot of trivia'. Now it's almost as if 'anyone is smart' and it's undefined how to measure it. Ie if you "guessed" that the vaccines were going to cause damage and avoided them, then you're not smart, you're just a conspiracy theorist.

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Actually, memory is essential to creative thought, which is usually the recombination of the objects of memory in novel ways. People have this idea that creativity is some kind of pipeline direct to God, but it’s not. You have to work to acquire knowledge and commit it to memory before you can be truly creative. This is why Mnemosyne, memory, is the mother of the muses.

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Yes, longer term memory retrieval. But, a mind full of indoctrination is useless. The ability to discern is essential. Therefore one who has both the ability to acquire and retrieve a vast amount of information and the wisdom to discern it is key.

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Agreed. Perhaps the mind of indoctrination could be described as one unconcerned with long-term memory. They do have to remember the rules, but the Party can change those at a whim and thus memory must be uprooted. We have always been at war with Eurasia.