Anti-intellectualism: America's fundamental flaw.

[Nada]

The future of America is grim.This video is not far fetched.

 

[Aquitaine]

Personally, I don't think it's a problem unique to the United States.
I think one of the problems lie with people, for decades, being seen (and treated) as consumers rather than citizens.

 

[Revoltingest]

That's alright. Sometimes projects end. As far as I see it, people get freed up to address the next possible challenge.

But one gets the clear message that when the administration expects certain results, then one best deliver (or be booted off the gravy train).

 

[Sand Dancer]

An interesting article in Psychology Today, yesterday: Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America | Psychology Today

Embarrassing, isn't it?

 

[Sand Dancer]

Personally, I don't think it's a problem unique to the United States.
I think one of the problems lie with people, for decades, being seen (and treated) as consumers rather than citizens.

We invented Christian fundamentalism unfortunately. It is a big problem here.

 

[columbus]

Mrs Revolt once worked at a non-profit which did research.
Under Carter, they had a contract to study if minority elderly got a fair share of benefits.
It concluded that they did.
Wrong conclusion....no more fed funding for them.

So, under Carter Mrs Revolt was employed to learn about the USA.
But then along came Reagan.
Tom

 

[Revoltingest]

So, under Carter Mrs Revolt was employed to learn about the USA.
But then along came Reagan.
Tom

No....the organization fell out of favor with the Carter admin.

 

[Bunyip]

Movies can be a tad inaccurate.
It was only recently that I discovered Australiastan is not a desolate wasteland filled with road warriors driving around supercharged cars seen in movies.
It's just an ordinary wasteland.....but with beer.

But Australia is like that! That was a doco.

 

[Revoltingest]

But Australia is like that! That was a doco.

You can't fool me!
Those movies were propaganda by the Australiastan Tourism Council.
Aussies on RF are so tame in comparison.

 

[Bunyip]

You can't fool me!
Those movies were propaganda by the Australiastan Tourism Council.
Aussies on RF are so tame in comparison.

The Aussies here are the elite, the very very brightest and smartest of Australians.

We can read.

 

[Revoltingest]

The Aussies here are the elite, the very very brightest and smartest of Australians.

We can read.

Did you say "effete"?

 

[Bunyip]

Did you say "effete"?

This is war!

Is that French for awesome?

 

[Revoltingest]

This is war!

I have an army of dingoes which shoot bees from their mouth!

 

[Bunyip]

I have an army of dingoes which shoot bees from their mouth!

I think that is a truly uneccessarily mean depiction of the US military.

 

[Revoltingest]

I think that is a truly uneccessarily mean depiction of the US military.

Those pikers?
No, I speak of Revoltistan's army!

 

[Mercy Not Sacrifice]

This is not a problem unique to the USA.
Has anybody seen the British Parliament in action? Heard today's news from Greece? Do you know what Egypt is governed by?
Tom

I am not aware of the British parliament debating whether to teach creationism in government-funded schools.
Or the Bundestag throwing a snowball on the parliament floor in the name of climate pseudoskepticism.
Or the French parliament debating whether to destroy workers' rights laws.
Or the Dutch parliament debating whether to teach children "abstienence-only."
Or the Finish parliament debating whether to allow private citizens to carry semiautomatic weapons a meter or more in length into city squares.

All of these borderline-insane debates actually happen in America. In Congress. 'MURICA!

 

[Valjean]

How about the Sodomite Suppression Act, legally registered in Caligornia and later to be voted on as a ballot initiative.

Seeing that it is better that offenders should die rather than that
all of us should be killed by God's just wrath against us for the folly
of tolerating wickedness in our midst, the People of California wisely
command, in the fear of God, that any person who willingly touches another
person of the same gender for purposes of sexual gratification be put to
death by bullets to the head or by any other convenient method.

I think this one has actually crossed the borderline.

 

[Revoltingest]

I am not aware of the British parliament debating whether to teach creationism in government-funded schools.
Or the Bundestag throwing a snowball on the parliament floor in the name of climate pseudoskepticism.
Or the French parliament debating whether to destroy workers' rights laws.
Or the Dutch parliament debating whether to teach children "abstienence-only."
Or the Finish parliament debating whether to allow private citizens to carry semiautomatic weapons a meter or more in length into city squares.

All of these borderline-insane debates actually happen in America. In Congress. 'MURICA!

If one looks in other countries for exact counterparts for the worst views seen here, one might miss their intellectual abominations.
Where there are people, there will be bad ideas. Where there are people in power, those ideas will be particularly offensive.
Example: France regulating dress to prevent overt religious symbolism, which is selectively applied.
I might be a substitute French teacher, but that doesn't mean I approve of them froggies!

 

[dust1n]

But one gets the clear message that when the administration expects certain results, then one best deliver (or be booted off the gravy train).

I suppose that can be a great quality or a terrible quality given whatever the situation may be.

 

[Revoltingest]

I suppose that can be a great quality or a terrible quality given whatever the situation may be.

I favor of independent inquiry.
The alternative leads to research which finds that cigarette aren't linked to cancer.