America the Ignorant

[BleedBurgundy]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

The overall ignorance of society in general is scary. And to think these are the people voting people into office, is it any wonder why the country is so F'd up??

Critical thinking is a lost art.

People are too intellectually lazy to think for themselves. It's much easier to ally oneself with a certain group and then just accept the party line.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

People are too intellectually lazy to think for themselves. It's much easier to ally oneself with a certain group and then just accept the party line.

Not sure if those go hand in hand.

[BleedBurgundy]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Not sure if those go hand in hand.

Of course it does. People are sheep. They don't want to go to the trouble of acquiring an informed opinion, it's too hard and it takes too long. They just want to pick a team and have their leaders tell them what to think and who to hate. Nobody will admit it but how else do you explain the absolute mess that is our government? If the majority of the country was actually plugged into what was going on, would that nonsense about Obama being Muslim have even made the news? Of course not, it was bullshit, and the jackasses reporting it knew it was bullshit. They only did it because they knew they had an enormous audience of slack jawed idiots who would believe whatever silliness came out of the magic porn box in front of them.


God, I hate people.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by BleedBurgundy

Of course it does. People are sheep. They don't want to go to the trouble of acquiring an informed opinion, it's too hard and it takes too long. They just want to pick a team and have their leaders tell them what to think and who to hate. Nobody will admit it but how else do you explain the absolute mess that is our government? If the majority of the country was actually plugged into what was going on, would that nonsense about Obama being Muslim have even made the news? Of course not, it was bullshit, and the jackasses reporting it knew it was bullshit. They only did it because they knew they had an enormous audience of slack jawed idiots who would believe whatever silliness came out of the magic porn box in front of them.


God, I hate people.

Ok, some of those issues could be what party you follow but most of those things are just plan schooling or reading or the lack there of. I can't ever recall anyone ever saying Obama was Muslim. I thought the left excepted everyone so why would it even matter.

[BleedBurgundy]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Ok, some of those issues could be what party you follow but most of those things are just plan schooling or reading or the lack there of. I can't ever recall anyone ever saying Obama was Muslim. I thought the left excepted everyone so why would it even matter.

During the election, I repeatedly heard people say that Obama was a) muslim and b) not born in the US. Invariably, the commenters were of the uneducated portion of our labor force. Again, I'm a registered republican, but ignorance is ignorance.