by Et in Arcadia ego » Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:32 pm
<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Still, I'm not the first to wonder how we, as Americans, could've morphed from the protesting activists of the 1960's, to the seemingly illogical apathy of today.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Many things are responsible for this, from the 'Dumbing down of America', which I used to have a link this complete book online, but cannot find, to socially engineered shifts of priority towards the family unit's over-ride in favor of unprecedented individualism.<br><br>About the dumbing down of America, I myself never had the opportunity to read the entire book, but one portion of it involved findings of the Military after WWII when they were trying to understand the seemingly obvious differences in intellegence/comprehension, etc of the recruits. There was a very long study done, and the results came down to the way the children were taught in schools. I forget the specific details, but there was a large change in HOW teaching was performed after WWI that apparently had an enormous effect on learning.<br><br>They did not release this study's results, or do anything to change it, but instead took advantage of the ever-growing numbers of people that were increasingly incapable of thinking for themselves.<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>THAT</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, and the epidemic of single-parent families in the 90's with the resulting ADD/emotionally thwarted 'Download' generation had more to do with what's happened to us than any single aerosol would be capable of..And even that's ignoring the low-voltage PTSD that is collectively generated on a regular basis with crowning events like 9/11..<br><br>It seems now this country's number one crop is raw Garmonbozia. <p>____________________<br>Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night.</p><i></i>
