If we continue to put garbage in, we are going to continue to get garbage out, and that is the cold, hard reality of the matter
Ten years ago, a major Hollywood film entitled “Idiocracy” was released, and it was an excellent metaphor for what would happen to America over the course of the next decade.
In the movie, an “average American” wakes up 500 years in the future only to discover that he is the most intelligent person by far in the “dumbed down” society that he suddenly finds himself in. Sadly, I truly believe that if people of average intellect from the 1950s and 1960s were transported to 2016, they would likely be considered mental giants compared to the rest of us. We have a country where criminals are being paid $1000 a month not to shoot people, and the highest paid public employee in more than half the states is a football coach. Hardly anyone takes time to read a book anymore, and yet the average American spends 302 minutes a day watching television. 75 percent of our young adults cannot find Israel on a map of the Middle East, but they sure know how to find smut on the Internet. It may be hard to believe, but there are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet today, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.
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4 comments:
This is so right our forefathers would be ashamed that we have gone backward in time to point out every wart rather than being proud and strong for our country and common decency. Live and let live do not let items in the news divide us as a people.
It is easier to stay in power if the electorate are I'll educated.
Thank you Rockefeller Foundation.
It is not so much that we are stupid it is more that we believe what they say to get our votes. After that they forget what they said to get our votes. Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me. Trump 2016. map
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