Who unquestioningly accept what they are told to believe

There seems to be a surprising number of people who unquestioningly accept what they are told to believe. Particularly if those "beliefs" acceptance, and parroting, are implicit requirements for their continued acceptance into membership of a support & companionship group; safety is in numbers.

Also, possibly this phenomenon is associated with education's compromise which converts learning into a competitive game of getting good grades to become accepted for opportunities, including desirable employment at the end of the education hurdles they have to pass. Without such compromise, the relatively few youngsters who, like I was, crave learning as a great adventure of exploration to see what is there, and what might be beyond. Science attempts to knit new knowledge with the old, providing connectiveness between the bits of knowledge. Then this framework is available for application to improve the human experience. Those attracted to such endeavors tend to focus on the larger world, of which people are merely small parts of it.

However, the majority of students and their adult resultants, seem almost totally obsessed with just other people. Theirs is not a world of nature which has people as part, but theirs seems to be a world of people which use nature as part of their gameboard on which they play their endless games of getting higher in the people hierarchy, the pecking order. The higher men climb up in the people pyramid, the more attractive they are to women looking for mates, thus it becomes a survival of one's genes struggle; no wonder it is totally obsessional to them - and no wonder why their kind has had so much reproductive success, the women tending to ignore the kind of man who are in relationship with the larger world of nature which only includes people as just part of, instead of being all of, that which is worthy.

So those folks who are intensely aware of the people world (all else being just props to be accumulated or ravished) have little incentive to learn about the discoveries of the vast relationships of nature - unless such learning is made part of the people path to success. Missing is the innate exploration of knowledge, of what is the nature of full reality; thus, have no mechanism for evaluating statements about non-people things. Such people apparently just learn schoolwork only as just things to parrot so as to gain jobs and status in the people world. And no wonder they continue to "believe" whatever the authority figure people tell them to believe; they have little practice or skill at checking out what is actually there through discovery in person.

And thus when it comes election time, this majority type of people just believe what is told them by their authority figures. And continue that when they get the authority figure pyramid elected in places of power. No wonder they have no inherent understanding of the effects of people on the environment that gives them life. The only way to get it at all into their mind is to re-format the subject matter into the gameboard kind of thing where people are pitted against other people, people team up to do better than the other team. Like, which team is proving better at enabling the best nurtured environment that gives them the stuff of life? And, no fair sabotaging the other team's proving grounds, because the whole world, and a bit beyond too, is the common proving grounds providing life stuff for all. Got to be converted into a game between other people, however, to get it noticed.