re: #256 LudwigVanQuixote

Hey, I am not aiming below the belt. I’m not gunning for anyone here honest.

I think you misread me. No one needs to know everything. That is impossible. You don’t complain that a brilliant programmer isn’t a great poet or that a great novelist isn’t up on topology or able to compose a fugue.

What I am complaining about is that the average American doesn’t know anything to any depth. They don’t know science past half remembered high school muddles (if they even accept the notion that science is correct). They barely know American history, let alone anyone else’s. They can’t - like you, program their VCR let alone use C/C++ or any of the more exotic languages. They have never read a great book that wasn’t assigned to them in High school (if they even read those). They can’t speak any languages other than English - and even that abysmally. They are not stupid, but have been allowed to live a life of utter intellectual atrophy.

How else would we have the politics we do if it were any other way?

I think that post may be taking a particular stance a bit too far and a bit too much of a broad brush, but I won’t disagree with you on the “dumbening” of America.

(Wait a minute… that’s not how you spell dumbening….)