“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” – George Carlin
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GEORGE CARLIN WAS RIGHT
Tag: dumb Americans
QUOTES OF THE DAY
“Ideologues are often willfully stupid, on both the right and the left. It serves them. Their selective blindness allows them to avoid thinking seriously about the world, and especially the state of their own souls.
Most of their lives are spent in the expedient serving and comfort of themselves. The good they do, the good things they may think, the public service that they may provide for others is generally inner directed. It is designed to make themselves feel good about themselves, and superior and apart from the masses, whom in their condescension they secretly despise.
Even their negative and disapproving emotions about others are self-serving, designed to elevate their views of themselves and their imagined aloofness and superiority. They are incapable of genuine repentance, because they blind themselves to their sins, and wash them away in their disgust with others whom they imagine are so much worse.”
Jesse
“The downward spiral of dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.”
Hunter S. Thompson
America- Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest
Hat tip David E.
Guest Post by Donald Jeffries
I’m taking the gloves completely off here. I’ve inferred that Americans collectively are pretty gullible and naive. I’ve invoked comparisons to Mike Judge’s movie Idiocracy. But it’s time to simply tell it like it is: the majority of present-day Americans are stupid beyond belief.
America the Illiterate
Guest Post by Chris Hedges
We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. This America, dependent on skillfully manipulated images for information, has severed itself from the literate, print-based culture. It cannot differentiate between lies and truth. It is informed by simplistic, childish narratives and clichés. It is thrown into confusion by ambiguity, nuance and self-reflection. This divide, more than race, class or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, has split the country into radically distinct, unbridgeable and antagonistic entities.
There are over 42 million American adults, 20 percent of whom hold high school diplomas, who cannot read, as well as the 50 million who read at a fourth- or fifth-grade level. Nearly a third of the nation’s population is illiterate or barely literate. And their numbers are growing by an estimated 2 million a year. But even those who are supposedly literate retreat in huge numbers into this image-based existence. A third of high school graduates, along with 42 percent of college graduates, never read a book after they finish school. Eighty percent of the families in the United States last year did not buy a book.