tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post5966469033003789802..comments2024-03-27T14:50:47.345-04:00Comments on <center>Sandwalk</center>: Idiot America?Larry Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-83970504275152794872009-04-22T14:50:00.000-04:002009-04-22T14:50:00.000-04:00Watch the movie "Idiocracy".Watch the movie "Idiocracy".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-36613900695312951862009-04-21T05:02:00.000-04:002009-04-21T05:02:00.000-04:00This is both sad and funny...http://tinyurl.com/dx...This is both sad and funny...http://tinyurl.com/dxdam3Lerouxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07219333781311629289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-54101109796922633512009-04-20T20:06:00.000-04:002009-04-20T20:06:00.000-04:00Like the song says:
Welcome to a new kind of tensi...Like the song says:<br /><I>Welcome to a new kind of tension,<br />All across the alienation,<br />Everything isn't meant to be OK ... </I> -- Green Day, <I>American Idiot</I>.brian thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11816630081635941429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-8431235990231049702009-04-20T18:29:00.000-04:002009-04-20T18:29:00.000-04:00Déjà vu:
Cultural Literacy: What Every American N...Déjà vu:<br /><br />Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know by E.D. Hirsch (1987)<br /><br />Closing of the American Mind Allan Bloom (1987)Veronica Abbasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07037599323472646996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-59246320621871696502009-04-20T14:47:00.000-04:002009-04-20T14:47:00.000-04:00"how a country founded on intellectual curiosity"
..."<I>how a country founded on intellectual curiosity</I>"<br /><br />Huh?Bayesian Bouffant, FCDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-21289575609187345112009-04-20T13:46:00.000-04:002009-04-20T13:46:00.000-04:00No one who earns their living in the United States...No one who earns their living in the United States by teaching undergraduates would dispute this.<br /><br />Another book: Susan Jacoby: Age of American Unreason.<br /><br />My guess is that this got a huge head of steam during the Ronald Reagan era.<br /><br />I am hoping that Barack Obama will make being smart "cool".Harriethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17953435368705942387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-32642386436524681142009-04-20T13:41:00.000-04:002009-04-20T13:41:00.000-04:00That is not funny, that is sad. Sad that our worl...That is not funny, that is sad. Sad that our world - politicians, religions, the news media, corporations, all of them contribute to the stupidity for their own narrow short term benefit.Ron Hagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08524149753815365592noreply@blogger.com