How did we get here? The dumbing of America, from Reagan to Trump and beyond ( www.salon.com )

Bizarroland , 10 months ago

I take umbrage with titles like this.

Isn't it great that somebody is telling us that "everybody has gotten stupider" and at the same time implying that "you are not one of the people that got stupider, of course, dear reader".

It's bullshit. We're not stupider. It's somebody else right? There's obviously got to be some giant group of stupid people out there and what it is is it's the fucking prisoners dilemma and we don't even realize we're in it.

Telling us that we are smart and educated of course and there's some invisible group of stupid people out there fucking everything up so there's nothing we can really do about it?

it's fucking mind control.

And you know, I personally hate being mind controlled by weird deceptive language.

Look past the article, find what they're actually reporting on and think for yourself okay?

btaf45 , 10 months ago

somebody is telling us that "everybody has gotten stupider"

I agree that Reagan started turning everything into crap. But it is not that simple. How come 50 years ago there was a lot more smoking and people believed in things like Extrasensory Perception? How come literacy and high school graduation rates were lower? How come half of Western Europe countries had large Communist parties and all of Eastern Europe had Communist dictatorships? How come conservatives were calling Eisenhower and Kennedy communists?