Latest opinion polls suggest 75% of Americans think the US should launch a preemptive military strike on North Korea. A US tv program decided to ask people on Hollywood Boulevard where, exactly, North Korea is. The results are bewildering, not least because some people pointed in the vague area of North America and Canada. Do we really live in a world where people in the most advanced economy on the planet not only have trouble locating North Korea on the map, but seem unsure where their own country is?
In 1995 Carl Sagan wrote the following:
“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 key 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 whats true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America 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), the lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."
It seems it happened sooner than he thought.
Where the fuck is North Korea, and the dumbing down of modern society.
Well, Kim seems relatively safe for the moment. Yanks, thick as pig shit, what's new.
"Not my circus, not my monkeys" - KiR
That's one charming constipated mother-f***ing pig.kinard wrote:Well, Kim seems relatively safe for the moment. Yanks, thick as pig shit, what's new.
Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
ut sint Guinness proxima morientis ori.
tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori."
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