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"The U.S. is being overrun by a wave of anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking. Has the most powerful nation on Earth lost its mind?"
America dumbs down: a rising tide of anti-intellectual thinking
Guano-boy there certainly seems to be doing his damnedest to bring the average down.
I cannot agree with you on that one, Unkie. Guno has exquisite taste in Classical music. He's hardly average.
Guano-boy there certainly seems to be doing his damnedest to bring the average down.
And I bet he supports the federalization of public education which has destroyed learning in favor of indoctrination.
"The U.S. is being overrun by a wave of anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking. Has the most powerful nation on Earth lost its mind?"
America dumbs down: a rising tide of anti-intellectual thinking
"The U.S. is being overrun by a wave of anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking. Has the most powerful nation on Earth lost its mind?"
America dumbs down: a rising tide of anti-intellectual thinking
I cannot agree with you on that one, Unkie. Guno has exquisite taste in Classical music. He's hardly average.
The racist, hateful, block-headed little punk is well below average as a human being regardless of what kind of music he likes. Doesn't take a genius to listen to music, champ.
Shit like this causes me to dismiss this "source" as drivel, obviously the rise of the internet and the ease of consuming content online is a big factor in newspaper, magazine, and cable news. Only someone with an agenda would purposely ignore the obvious and try to look at reduction in magazine subscriptions in a vacuum to lay out evidence of less intellectual thinking.Newspaper and magazine circulation continues to decline sharply, as does viewership for cable news.
And how exactly does author quantify "suspect" for internet content compared to what was on supper hour shows in 1980? I submit the availability of content from different sources and different motivations is far superior to 1980 when you pretty much had to pick your major TV network to get your information, very little choice and definitely not much on TV that wasn't produced from a large corporation.The three big network supper-hour shows drew a combined average audience of 22.6 million in 2013, down from 52 million in 1980. While 82 per cent of Americans now say they seek out news digitally, the quality of the information theyre getting is suspect.
Actually the best selling book of 2013 was Inferno by Dan Brown, the 4th in his series which included Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol. Fiction yes but hardly fluff and having a lot more historical depth than most fiction novels.What is America reading? 50 shades of grey.
Logical fallacy, you can hardly prove the reason his books didn't sell is because it requires the reader to think there are so many factors in whether a book is a best seller and your personal opinion of it is hardly weight enough to demonstrate it should be a best seller.I have a friend who is a 93 yr old published author. His writing is superb and yet his books didn't become a best seller. Why? His writing is so eloquent and detailed it requires the reader to "think".
"The U.S. is being overrun by a wave of anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking. Has the most powerful nation on Earth lost its mind?"
America dumbs down: a rising tide of anti-intellectual thinking
America dumbs down
Nobody's religion should be playing a role in state affairs. From a biblical standpoint I see no reason why the mammoth can't be a state fossil. Evolution should not be the only answer given to the question of where do we come from because it's not the only answer.
Society has dumbed down. Somewhere along the line we decided we want everything given to us in a nice neat package without us having to think much about things. It's why we have corrupt politicians,our jobs are overseas,and we are having mass shootings everyother week. Americans don't want to do the work of investigating and in general paying attention to what's going on in our communities. We'd rather wear blinders and worry about what Jay Z is doing next over what to do about the national debt or healthcare. The education system has gotten into the habit of making excuses for children who don't make the grade and pass them along whether they deserve it or not. My local school system has gotten rid of cursive, only gives spelling tests up to 5th grade and allows calculators in class instead of making the child learn how to do the math. This means our future generation is being taught to be more ignorant than the last generation and in the event of the collaspe of internet/computer age, they are basically screwed. It's going to get worse before it gets better.
SAT scores overlapping with classical music probably has a lot more to do with education level and cultural exposure than raw IQ, and either way it hardly proves an individual poster who likes classical music is more intelligent, anymore than it proves someone who listens to rap is stupid.I hope you are in a good mood today because I don't want you to fuss at me. I'll make it short. Here is a link to support my theory that music selection is indeed a sign of intelligence.
Shit like this causes me to dismiss this "source" as drivel, obviously the rise of the internet and the ease of consuming content online is a big factor in newspaper, magazine, and cable news. Only someone with an agenda would purposely ignore the obvious and try to look at reduction in magazine subscriptions in a vacuum to lay out evidence of less intellectual thinking.Newspaper and magazine circulation continues to decline sharply, as does viewership for cable news.
And how exactly does author quantify "suspect" for internet content compared to what was on supper hour shows in 1980? I submit the availability of content from different sources and different motivations is far superior to 1980 when you pretty much had to pick your major TV network to get your information, very little choice and definitely not much on TV that wasn't produced from a large corporation.The three big network supper-hour shows drew a combined average audience of 22.6 million in 2013, down from 52 million in 1980. While 82 per cent of Americans now say they seek out news digitally, the quality of the information theyre getting is suspect.
Actually the best selling book of 2013 was Inferno by Dan Brown, the 4th in his series which included Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol. Fiction yes but hardly fluff and having a lot more historical depth than most fiction novels.What is America reading? 50 shades of grey.
1980's best seller list included Fire Starter and Princess Daisy, have we really devolved so much?
Logical fallacy, you can hardly prove the reason his books didn't sell is because it requires the reader to think there are so many factors in whether a book is a best seller and your personal opinion of it is hardly weight enough to demonstrate it should be a best seller.I have a friend who is a 93 yr old published author. His writing is superb and yet his books didn't become a best seller. Why? His writing is so eloquent and detailed it requires the reader to "think".
SAT scores overlapping with classical music probably has a lot more to do with education level and cultural exposure than raw IQ, and either way it hardly proves an individual poster who likes classical music is more intelligent, anymore than it proves someone who listens to rap is stupid.I hope you are in a good mood today because I don't want you to fuss at me. I'll make it short. Here is a link to support my theory that music selection is indeed a sign of intelligence.
To be honest it sounds like a bunch of people trying to prop up their own self-esteem by claiming their music preferences indicate superiority in other natural attributes.
