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Move to another country. The US has set up a perfect storm of a shockingly awful school system, dumbed down media from every angle, emotion in politics causing
by loewenskind 16y ago
Move to another country. The US has set up a perfect storm of a shockingly awful school system, dumbed down media from every angle, emotion in politics causing people to frame every discussion as "my side = save the US" vs. "their side = destroy it", etc. creating a large group of people who just can't be reasoned with.
- a-priori 16y agoWhile I agree these are all concerns, I am skeptical that this is a modern phenomenon. Were people a generation or two ago really less emotional, or less prone to black-and-white thinking?
- loewenskind 16y agoI think they were probably the same they just didn't spend as much time thinking (for lack of a better word) about this stuff. It wasn't that long ago that there was only 15 minutes of news a day on the TV. People were thinking about it less because they didn't have the option to plug into political hacks spewing nonsense literally 24/7.