America is Fucked
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“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues;
when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
- Carl Sagan
- It's important to know the time this was said: 1995********
- Ah yes, the year Romania got its first McDonald’s.monospaced
- We grew a lot since then, and yet America is still dumb af********
- Maybe if you try hard enough you can send someone to one of our good schools when they are older.monospaced
- Your schools are full of foreigners, not locals that's the issue you as a people are dumb af********
- Foreign students make up 6% of US universities.canoe
- Not that reality matters to a lying bigot and xenophobe like yourself.canoe
- tbf if you look at STEM subjects its very different. same in UK. only 32% of US undergraduate study is STEM. 51% of masters and doctoral students arekingsteven
- international... and thats average. STEM, research, good university - its more like 70%kingsteven
- just pointing out the 'universities are all international students' statistical trope that graf is hinting at here. its fairly standard at any prestigiouskingsteven
- western university.kingsteven
- It's important to know the time this was said: 1995