The Bane of Anti-Intellectualism
Link: Anti-Intellectualism and the Dumbing Down of America While reading this article, I was shocked with how true this is...while I'm in pain from a surgery, I'm kind of shaking my head. I'm starting to really hate the US's desire to get rid of people like myself who sits reading. I love books and movies that are intellectual or at least interesting, we are seeing people who are denying that history happened. While working at my job, I see it all the time, I am very intelligent and suddenly I get asked a question of "why bother learning this crap, it is worthless?" I stare in shock at the person asking me the question and think to myself, why both talking to someone who can't even read a novel without complaining about it. In the article it speaks of the dumbing down, well...we are seeing it in cultural changes, religious groups whining that nonChristians are attacking them. We don't attack them, we challenge them with the idea that we have to d