Everywhere you look these days, America is in a rush to embrace the stupid. Hell-bent on a path that’s not just irrational, but often self-destructive. Common-sense solutions to pressing problems are eschewed in favor of bumper-sticker simplicities and blind faith. macleans.ca/politics/america-dumbs-down/ Hm, replace bumper sticker with snarky Facebook Jpegs. This depressing article in Canadas MacLeans Magazine certainly offers a litany of statistics suggesting that at-minimum, the citizens of the United States are splitting in twain -- with half the country going out o its ever-luvin mind. Here is a simple test for you Americans to check whether you might be on the wrong side in this civil war. Does my side include tens of millions of folks who pray daily for events that would kill most of their neighbors, consigning them to eternal torment? Events that would bring to an end all science and ambition and terminate both democracy and the United States of America? If that pretty much describes my fellow partisans… could it be that I am on the wrong side, after all? Want to know my take on this? We Americans have been passing through what Robert Heinlein forecast as The Crazy Years.
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 19:15:07 +0000
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