October 1, 2013 By Bruce Thornton
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The modern West demonstrates a phenomenon unknown in
history––unprecedented wealth, technology, and access to information combined
with abject stupidity. Wisdom once known by every village explainer and
cracker-barrel crank has been discarded and replaced with phony “sciences”
making claims about human nature and behavior that are based on nothing other
than false assumptions, political ideology, and wishful thinking. Whether it’s
foreign policy, managing the economy, or teaching the young, our leaders
institute policies that violate the traditional wisdom accumulated by
generations of human experience….. So
why do we continue to chase pedagogical fads that make our children more
ignorant and unprepared for the adult world?
Because we can
afford to.
The malign effects
of turning out generation after generation of ignoramuses with bloated
self-esteem are insidious. Like the exploding federal debt, the apocalypse lies
down the road, which means it will be somebody else’s problem. Meanwhile we
have enough accumulated capital from our forbears, and enough smart people who
somehow escape or overcome the educational mediocrity machine to keep the
economy humming just enough for most of us to keep shopping, eating, and
twerking ourselves into oblivion.....To Read More......
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