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spilot101
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| The intellectual regress has been immediately apparent in the last decade, at least in N. America. |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2013 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| spilot101 wrote: |
| The intellectual regress has been immediately apparent in the last decade, at least in N. America. |
^ My new favorite poster.
It could be the effects of the high fructose corn syrup. Apparently Americans give that to babies now instead of milk. Increases profits and helps decrease the never-ending supply of corn. A double win wouldn't you say? |
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chellovek
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:30 am Post subject: |
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| KimchiNinja wrote: |
| spilot101 wrote: |
| The intellectual regress has been immediately apparent in the last decade, at least in N. America. |
^ My new favorite poster.
It could be the effects of the high fructose corn syrup. Apparently Americans give that to babies now instead of milk. Increases profits and helps decrease the never-ending supply of corn. A double win wouldn't you say? |
With such an elegant solution to the corn problem, what's all this about people declining in intelligence? |
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KimchiNinja
Joined: 01 May 2012
Location: Gangnam
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| Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
The average person under 30 is woefully ignorant compared to those over. There are plenty of exceptions, but the level of ignorance is STAGGERING. The problem is that it used to be fashionable and socially acceptable, even in working class homes, to do things like read books and discuss philosophy. The working class intellectual culture has been devastated over the last 50 years under a barrage of TV and sports.
Combine that with the fact that a large number of people used to go to college because they liked learning and that was what they were interested in. People who didn't care for academics would just go work at the Ford plant and make good money. Now, everyone goes to college because they think they have to in order to make money. Consequently you get a lot of people who aren't academically inclined going through the motions at college but having little natural intellectual curiosity. |
I would agree.
People in the USA really are getting stupider, and it's not even funny. It has become cool to be stupid. Most people can't even use punctuation when writing, and are prone to random "yee haa" type bursts of stupidity when speaking. They also don't seem to have any mind of their own, trained to say what TV has programmed them to say.
It's really embarrassing, but they are too stupid to know to be embarrassed by their stupidity!  |
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maximmm
Joined: 01 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| KimchiNinja wrote: |
| Steelrails wrote: |
The average person under 30 is woefully ignorant compared to those over. There are plenty of exceptions, but the level of ignorance is STAGGERING. The problem is that it used to be fashionable and socially acceptable, even in working class homes, to do things like read books and discuss philosophy. The working class intellectual culture has been devastated over the last 50 years under a barrage of TV and sports.
Combine that with the fact that a large number of people used to go to college because they liked learning and that was what they were interested in. People who didn't care for academics would just go work at the Ford plant and make good money. Now, everyone goes to college because they think they have to in order to make money. Consequently you get a lot of people who aren't academically inclined going through the motions at college but having little natural intellectual curiosity. |
I would agree.
People in the USA really are getting stupider, and it's not even funny. It has become cool to be stupid. Most people can't even use punctuation when writing, and are prone to random "yee haa" type bursts of stupidity when speaking. They also don't seem to have any mind of their own, trained to say what TV has programmed them to say.
It's really embarrassing, but they are too stupid to know to be embarrassed by their stupidity! |
It all reminds me of the elections campaign of 2012/2008 and the analysis that went along with it. Obama was called an intellectual that could not connect with people.
When he called American people, people, fox analysts claimed that he knew only intellectual people, but he had nothing in common with American folks - the average morons with rapidly diminishing intellectual properties (my interpretation). Ever since then, Americans have primarily been addressed as folks, rather than people in order not enrage the fox analysts. Intelligence is no longer cool/interesting - to appear to the public, leaders now have to be dumbed down - and words have to be spoken out slowly and clearly, while vocabulary used has to be on par with vocabulary used in 5th grade, not higher.
The new reality^^ |
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