Are we lazy and ignorant?
Here’s a blog with a blast to start your Monday, David Berlind’s article Why Americans are technology, political, and educational laggards and how it will doom them.
Compared to other parts of the world, we’re a relatively unsophisticated bunch, us Americans. And that culture of convenience, laziness, and ignorance is going to doom the US in the long run because of how it will deprive America of its edge in other areas where it was once a beacon to the world. Democracy is one of those. Education the other.
On the political front, we are no longer a nation of people that goes deep on the issues and seeks out the truth. I’d like to believe there was a time when the majority of Americans were passionate about democracy and politics. But perhaps I’m fooling myself. The People, helped along by a failing media complex, have established a preference for fast food politics. Forget any real exploration. Just give us the sound bites please, thank you very much.
Unfortunately, this cry from Berlind is not just another diatribe. What he is talking about can be seen everywhere. There is a vacuum of leadership in our political parties. Statesmanship has disappeared. Our public schools were once the best in the world but have become a bastion of mediocrity. Both ends of the political spectrum have helped in this process. The right-wing religionists and the left-wing anti-elitists and political correctness zealots are together helping to bring us down.
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