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Americans don’t bother to read or learn from history
by ramgine 21d ago
Americans don’t bother to read or learn from history
- deepfriedbits 21d agoAmericans are not uniquely ignorant. American ignorance is just blasted out to the entire world to see.
- kdkjfjgj 21d ago[dead]
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- tremon 21d agoThat's true. They are uniquely proud of their ignorance though. It is, as they say, the best -- the greatest. No one does it better. I mean, did you know that dumb was spelled with a -b at the end?
- Terr_ 21d agoI try to walk a tricky path with foreign critics: Yes, your criticism is mostly valid, but please please do not think "it can't happen in my country", because I remember when I thought that too. This infection on the body politic can and has jumped to infect others, and does not require an abnormally weak host to attack, and overconfidence is a kind of weakness.
- adriand 21d agoThis is true, although it’s true for most if not all developed societies. People read less and less. We live in a post-literate, hyper-visual era. I am not sure if short form video is effective at educating people on why we have public health and food inspection agencies, but I confess I’m not optimistic.
- nancyminusone 21d agoVideo seems spectacularly promising, especially for those that cannot read, which has been a pretty high percentage historically. But it's not being done right. Nobody would rather watch a video called Food Regulations in the US when they could watch 100 Minecraft Players Compete for A Bar of Literal Gold or whatever