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  • kona5

    There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It's the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility.

    Or as we at QBN like to call it... "The OMG Syndrome"

    https://www.sott.net/article/313…

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    • It was like that in Canada when I was growing up, too. This isn't really anything new.Continuity
    • Oh, so that explains why you act the way you do.

      lol      kona
    • Not sure I follow.Continuity
    • this has been ongoing since at least Thatcher/Reagan and the rise of neoliberalism.fadein11
    • It's got electrolytes.aslip
    • did either of you bother to read?
      "...has been steadily defined downward for several decades."
      So yes fadein11, you are correct. Second paragraph, second senten      kona
    • Brawndo, it's what plants crave!plash
    • sorry thought you wrote it as no quotes kona... my bad :)fadein11
    • No worries!kona
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