Posted on 10/10/2024 8:41:48 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
Media brainwashing. The media doesn’t care about their blatant bias because they know that a high enough percentage of people won’t realize when they’re being manipulated.
Yep getting old is a bitch. i'm 75, way out of the employment pool depending on the largesse of the gubbmint to give me decades of SS payments back with reasonable interest. But of course this age group is just worthless eaters. The military disability benefit helps, but I dare not use it in conversation as it shows me as a worthless taker even though I paid physically for that '''''''''''''benefit. Strange world.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer‘s Theory of Stupidity lays it out.
https://youtu.be/ww47bR86wSc?si=jnW-zwDBTOabxf3U
It’s a moral failing, not an intellectual one.
And I see this point is made by many posters here.
After the 1960’s it was decided that an educated populace was too hard to control, so a concerted effort was undertaken to turn academia towards specific skill sets rather than broad knowledge, whilst television and popular entertainment became geared towards immaturity, violence and the lust for instant gratification.
If all the children in Lake Wobegon are above average, it stands to reason that in the rest of the country, the majority is below average.
Public education run by commies.
george soros...
50% ??? WTF... That’s a conservative estimate... I’m thinking more like 75%.
I’m thinking 50% is a rather low number for this topic.......
As Carlin said, the owners of this country don’t want people who can think for themselves, they want them to be just smart enough to run the machines.
Publik Skools and “teachers unions”.
Things started going downhill when parents let TV be the babysitter.
I agree with you. I was being a little conjectural in my question. I appreciate and agree with just about every opinion. But I do believe the origins of this intellectual and spiritual implosion is spiritual in origin. If we read Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah, and Revelation we realize that we are not in control of the end times. The Bible says God will send a strong delusion for those people who choose not to believe. This moral decline is not only in America but is throughout the western world. Once a society abandons the precepts of transcendent creator it is doomed to ultimate collapse.
That came with feminism and the end of the stay at home mother.
Re: demonic stupidity
That why I call them the DemoN-rats.
50% of voters are illegals and dead people on expired voter databases, just saying
Public Schools (Government Schools, a dumb citizen is a happy citizen...)
In part, because they are pubic school educated, if that’s what you can call what goes on in public schools these days.
And, yes, demonic deception.
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