“The world has never been as ignorant and stupid and dysfunctional as it is today.”
I don’t know about that. Technology allows for a collective awareness about things that have always been, ignorance and dysfunction, albeit in the shadows of the consciousness.
This ability to see every trifle in the world, in real-time, is a relatively new phenomenon.
Germany, on the other hand, has a rich and documented history of allowing itself to be led by the nose-ring to the vary gates of Hell, before the world has to reach in and pull their asses out of the abyss.
I stand by what I said.
Common sense, the ability to discern, knowledge of history, common decency and more are non existent for most. The young people today know more about Michael Jackson than they do George Washington. They know all about Hiroshima and Nagasaki but know nothing of the Marshall Plan or the Bataan Death March. They have little or no appreciation or knowledge of what made this country great.