Subj : Once upon a time.
To   : Richard Webb
From : Ross Sauer
Date : Tue Mar 29 2011 17:59:02

"Richard Webb -> BOB KLAHN" <1:116/901> wrote in news:288
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 RW>> And this surprises you how?

 BK>>  Saddens, not surprises.

 RW> Doesn't do either for me, angers me.  We don't teach kids
 RW> civics anymore, we just keep dumbing it down and dumbing it
 RW> own, but the big fascists who really have a lot to gain like a dumbed
 RW> down populace.

 RW> Most of these pieces of human garbage would discount and
 RW> ridicule the scientists who put the toys they now enjoy in
 RW> their hands.  tHey have no clue whatsoever what gave them
 RW> their little satellite dish and their fifty-seven channels
 RW> of nothin' on.
 RW> Sometimes I thank god I'm already on the down side of the
 RW> slippery slope, at least I won't get to see the worst of
 RW> what the fascists and their dumbed down masses will create.
 RW> I am truly I left offspring behind to be part of it however.

Not suprising to me in the least.

And it's nothing new, popular media denigrates intellectual achievments.

Back in the 1950's, Isaac Asimov wrote an essay called "The Cult Of
Ignorance" decrying this, using the example of a movie, showing a woman who
does research, but she isn't "happy" until Mr Tall Dark And Handsome sweeps
her off her feet, she dumps her research to marry TD & H.

Obama gets denigrated for being "too intellectual/elite," while George W
Bush was "just a guy we could have a beer with."

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