8 thoughts on “The Dumbest Generation”

  1. Yikes.

    And I predict they’re going to do it again in November.

    The Gramscians should be proud of themselves. Their long march through the institutions has been a smashing success. These youngsters are among the most-propagandized generations in history. (I’ve even sort of defended the Occupy protesters on these grounds. Why blame them for regurgitating what they’ve been taught all their lives?)

    I commented on another blog recently that I’ve come to the conclusion that Ron Paul may have a better chance of defeating Obama than either Romney, Gingrich, or Santorum, because he would win more votes among young people, independents, and disaffected Democrats. No way are young people going to vote for any of the other three. They will default to Obama or stay home.

    Paul would probably still lose, though, because many mainstream Republicans would refuse to vote for him. However, if he ran as an independent, I think he would actually end up hurting Obama more than the Republican nominee for the above reason.

  2. You can talk about the ‘young’ being ignorant, given their access to information.

    But have any of you read the comments on conservative blogs, from people concerned with the FBI ‘turning off’ the internet? 99% of the comments are about the government over stepping their authority BY turning off the internet. The majority of the remaining 1% just blame Obama for getting Congress to let him be the ‘one’ person ‘controlling’ the internet ‘switch’.

    These are conservatives reading conservative blogs. They are, from their comments, reasonably educated, older than Gen X or Gen Y, and if they are commenting online, they have the SAME access to information as the ‘dumb’ kids.

    I took the time on several sites this week to school them about how the internet infrastructure is put together. On several occasions I was told the government OWNS the internet and that all the FBI has to do is get permission form the FCC to turn off ‘the switch’.

    I get that these aren’t sites populated exclusively by engineers. But I didn’t know how many servers there were as of Dec 2011, or what percentage of internet traffic goes over fiber optics and not wire cable, or how many millions of miles of cable make up the infrastructure, etc, etc. So I did some internet searches to flesh out what I already knew.

    If somebody sends me an e-mail link, to a story that says next week the Federal Highway Authorities are going to shut down the interstate highways…I’m going to some research to learn all I can about the interstate highways, before I start blaming POTUS for getting Congress to give him that amount of power.

    Yes the kids are not too sharp, stuff like this graph and OWS prove they can’t count or think. But I think in many instances, the seed isn’t falling far from the tree.

  3. God, I hope it rains over the entire country, heavily, November 6, with an blizzard conditions where it is possible.

    You know what was the worst thing about the draft?  The 26th Amendment.

  4. And people wonder why I am a monarchist.

    Nose-counting is just about the stupidest way to run a country as can be imagined. Even the Greeks knew it, which is why they kept their democracy at the level of the polis, the only level at which it has any chance of being effective.

    For what it’s worth, there is very likely no effective means of governing a centralized, multicultural, multi-ethnic continental empire such as the good old U.S.A. If this were a single-ethnic country, or a country united by a common culture, we could probably nurse things along for a good many years. As things are… not a chance.

    I’m not expecting things to come apart in a big, satisfying bang, mind you. I think instead we can look forward to a long, excruciating, pathetic whimper instead. Sic transit gloria mundi.

  5. Eh, after this particular generation gets burned a few times, they’ll cease to be the “dumbest” generation. That title will fall upon the next crop.

    All I can say is that if you raise up a generation without even a simple understanding of fraud, deception, and the like, then they’ll be ruthlessly exploited when they hit the real world. And indeed that’s what we see, with things like credit cards, student loans, and handsome politicians with empty promises (excuse me, “positions”). True learning comes at a hefty price.

  6. This is what happens when you divorce responsibility from results. We need to redefine minor to anyone under thirty and only allow ‘adults’ to vote.

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