America is Fucked
America is Fucked
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- Horp0
- Nice, I love long reads like this.
Can't say I disagree with the content, either, frankly.Continuity - The only real problem I have with this is that he pins the root cause of the US's problems on the wrong thing. Yes, addiction play _a_ role,Continuity
- ... but, from where I sit, it's the US's problematic — though weirdly celebrated — anti-inteelectualism... And it's that anti-intellectualism that preventsContinuity
- ... sanity over magical or conspiratorial thinking from flourishing. And a population not properly educated, even at the primary and secondary level,Continuity
- ... is one that will always end up like this: ignorant, paranoid, conspiratorial, resentful of those with an education, and will try to make itself dominant.Continuity
- But then, what about the educated ones? They also seem fucking uts in the US. My guess, the quality of pre-university education is seriouslyContinuity
- ... deficient. Which should hardly come as any surprise, given that mythology straight out of the christian bible gets served up as facts in public schools.Continuity
- fucking *nutsContinuity
- Great Hunter Thompson vibes, love it. And his name is Thompson too! Madness!srhadden
- Nice, I love long reads like this.