America: America: Why R Your Peeps So Dum?

This is a great article at Alternet.org. I ask a similar question daily – Can we get any dumber? Dumb is like a disease these days. When people with limited knowledge like Sarah Palin are allowed to run for vice president of the United States of America it sends a message to young people that it’s okay to be mediocre. Don’t get me wrong, I believe Ms. Palin is a smart cookie, that’s what’s so bad about her situation. It appears that she made a decision not to learn more than enough to get her by. She had no need for current events on a national level, so she didn’t read national magazines. Based on her performance in interviews and debates, there was a lot of information she did not care to learn about this country and the world – like that’s not Russia she sees from her back yard!

Then there was our previous president. I liked the guy… thought he was a cute little character, but I’m not sure about President Bush’s intellectual capacity.

So, to answer Alternet.org’s question above… American’s are dum because you don’t need to be smart to have a reality show… or become president!

U.S. culture is going down like a thrashing mastodon giving itself up to some Pleistocene tar pit.

If you hang out much with thinking people, conversation eventually turns to the serious political and cultural questions of our times. Such as: How can the Americans remain so consistently brain-fucked? Much of the world, including plenty of Americans, asks that question as they watch U.S. culture go down like a thrashing mastodon giving itself up to some Pleistocene tar pit.

One explanation might be the effect of 40 years of deep fried industrial chicken pulp, and 44 ounce Big Gulp soft drinks. Another might be pop culture, which is not culture at all of course, but marketing. Or we could blame it on digital autism: Ever watch commuter monkeys on the subway poking at digital devices, stroking the touch screen for hours on end? That wrinkled Neolithic brows above the squinting red eyes? Read the full story at Alternet.org