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The world is a diverse place and humanity is very complicated, we will often times run into people who have different opinions compared to ours and that is perfectly normal... jumping to call them "dumb" is a little out of the ordinary.
I however do see a poster here spewing a lot of mass generalizations about a whole nation, not exactly something a "smart" person would do.
There seems to be two sides here. What I see as dumb is each side thinking they are the better one. This is a huge country and it takes everyone to keep the machine running. So tell me what good it does to argue back and forth about who is dumb. At the end of the day who here believes they actually changed someone's opinion? Like lots of things in this country at this time, we would rather be divisive, than work together to better things for the entire country. For whatever reason we all think our side is better than the other,and the one thing we have in common is that eventually that thinking is going to bite us all in the ass. Have a great day and my best to all, no matter what side you allign with.
I don't understand why America is considered "Great" or a "Super Power."
There are so many dumb people . . .
I would venture that the average IQ in America is points lower than say Japan, or any number of other countries . . .
Why are there so many dumb people in America and WHY is America considered "the" Super Power?
It's not so much that people are dumb, but that they are ignorant. Our education system has failed because it has become indoctrination rather than education. People do not know our history, and what they are taught about it (which is very little) is a lie. The Left took over our schools many years ago. Our children are not taught to think, but they are taught what to think.
I don't understand why America is considered "Great" or a "Super Power."
There are so many dumb people . . .
I would venture that the average IQ in America is points lower than say Japan, or any number of other countries . . .
Why are there so many dumb people in America and WHY is America considered "the" Super Power?
I would say you haven't traveled much. There are dumb and ignorant people all over the world and the term is subjective and differs depending on the culture.
Having lived and traveled in many parts of the world, I'd say some of the 'dumbest' people I've met are highly 'educated' people in Asian countries such as South Korea. Despite spending countless hours studying and memorizing, many of these people know very little and do not have the ability to use reason or logic in the sense that we are accustomed to in Western society.
Moreover, in Europe, vast numbers of people are of the underclass, lacking education or a means to support themselves, merely existing.
I would also venture to say seemingly intelligent and highly educated people in many countries, including the US are actually very 'dumb', not understanding even basic logic or economics. Some of the smartest people I've met are actually those, who have not been indoctrinated by social justice theories in years of 'schooling'.
I would say you haven't traveled much. There are dumb and ignorant people all over the world and the term is subjective and differs depending on the culture.
Having lived and traveled in many parts of the world, I'd say some of the 'dumbest' people I've met are highly 'educated' people in Asian countries such as South Korea. Despite spending countless hours studying and memorizing, many of these people know very little and do not have the ability to use reason or logic in the sense that we are accustomed to in Western society.
Moreover, in Europe, vast numbers of people are of the underclass, lacking education or a means to support themselves, merely existing.
I would also venture to say seemingly intelligent and highly educated people in many countries, including the US are actually very 'dumb', not understanding even basic logic or economics. Some of the smartest people I've met are actually those, who have not been indoctrinated by social justice theories in years of 'schooling'.
Agree with all of that 100%.
I would also suggest that not all that many, even in Western society, have the ability to use reason or logic. They just merely 'emote.' Emoting is NOT thinking rationally, logically, or critically. It's just having a visceral, emotional reaction. We've seen that countless times here on POC.
Public schools are indoctrination camps - not learning facilities. Critical thinking is frowned upon, but that's another thread.
Let's revisit the Texas Republican Party's platform which openly discourages critical thinking.
“We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.”
Some years ago the conservative critique was that we were abandoning the Western humanistic tradition, this was during the days of the heyday of the counter-culture and was expressed in books like The Closing of the American Mind. Now they have become the most ardent enemies of the Western rationalist tradition. A bit ironic, isn’t it?
I don't understand why America is considered "Great" or a "Super Power."
There are so many dumb people . . .
I would venture that the average IQ in America is points lower than say Japan, or any number of other countries . . .
Why are there so many dumb people in America and WHY is America considered "the" Super Power?
Kind of a dumb post but I will bite.
Well we are a superpower because we have more weapons than anyone else and a GDP only rivaled by China.
Throughout history is has been the country with the most might is the greatest not how smart the average person is.
As far as IQ, we have control over how much education we get but not much can change our IQ. If the problem is education perhaps we need to rethink our union run school districts how poorly we compare with other countries.
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