3 years, eh? Time flies when you're FReeping.
I don't see the US falling into that ditch, but into another ditch -- we mock smart people. "Big bang theory" is an exception, but in every other show watched by kids and young adults, to be smart is to be a loser.
I'll see you and raise you one -- not only do we mock smart people (at least, in the larger culture); but we are substituting (through Bill Maher, John Stewart, David Letterman, and Jay Carney) snark and posturing as a substitute for intelligence: "Well, you can't challenge ME. I went to HARVARD." (That is, borrowing prestige from where you went to school, regardless of your major, GPA, or how well you learned; and regardless of the faddishness or PC content of the courses. Recall that in the mid-1840's, one had to be able to read Latin at the level of Cicero to be *admitted* to Harvard.)
That, coupled with the disdain for "Dead White Males" (who conceived, designed, tested, built, and maintained almost anything of value in the wider world today) in favor of gender feminism, together with the solipsistic regard for single motherhood, bodes ill for the United States and the West.
My FR vanity on dumbing down:
(Vanity) Getting the Point on Ayers, or, An Act of War
And the inimitable Dr. Paul Rahe of Hillsdale College, from a piece at Ricochet on the decline of the US:
The Deepest Source of Our Troubles.
NO cheers, unfortunately.
true
The anti-"Dead White males" is senseless as if one is really non-racist then they should see that the discoveries of say Pasteur is the property of all, and at the same time Chinese, Indians, Arabs made discoveries -- all are not "racial" or "national" properties....