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| There have never been so many literate idiots | |
| 2024-03-04 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Dmitry Kosyrev [RIA] Sometimes the stupidest question, simply because it is unexpected, leads to good answers. Which at least awaken the thought. The question is: why are there so many idiots around? Note: in this case we are talking about American society, although we are talking about societies in other Western countries too. That is, we have before us a roll call of American authors, including obviously smart and worthy of respect. No, well, we see and hear this too. And we are talking about the degeneration of not just the ruling elite, but the educated class and the government apparatus of the USA, the EU or Australia and other Canada. The most stupid statements are being made - those that concern Russia, but not only. Although many have hope that there are smart people there too, they are just sitting quietly somewhere, but they can take power. And two author-bloggers - they are not even talking about government structures, but about everyday idiocy, which has never happened before. Here is the scene outside the Israeli embassy in Washington during a demonstration in support of Palestine. A man in full US Air Force uniform pours gasoline on himself and strikes a lighter for a long time. And for some reason a security guard from the Secret Service takes him at gunpoint and stands there until everything ends badly. Author's conclusion: this is a symbol of today's America. One person is absorbed in his ideas to the point of absurdity and self-destruction, the other - a representative of the authorities - reacts to what is happening in the most savage way. And then the author lists many more, including “it’s not clear whose” cocaine is in the White House. In general, everyone at all levels says and does wild things. The second blogger is about humor . He asks where the great American satirists have gone. It turns out that they cannot say a word - they will hound you. For the word "Negro" and in general for everything that could be ridiculed before. And when a nation loses its sense of humor, things are bad. We admit that the examples of idiocy here are random, simply pulled out of the flow of events. But there is a general feeling of the onset of such idiocy - and incredibly aggressive idiocy. And there is at least one completely unexpected explanation for this. One of the publicists finds it in a book published, imagine, in 1943: “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy” by Joseph Schumpeter. It contains a simple idea: if in society there are more and more people with higher education in the humanities, people who are far from real production, then these people can begin to create problems for everyone. Especially considering the fact that they know that they are not particularly needed, unlike, for example, a truck driver, who today earns much more than a humanities professor. Under Schumpeter, there were only one million students in the United States. Now 66 percent of the population there has at least a college degree (pre-college or something like that).
That is, a ruling class is being formed, far from real production and normal life in general. And in this class, ideas of “rebooting everything,” that is, a world revolution, are beginning to circulate. And if not all, then at first individual spheres and industries, those that have their own science (that is, work experience), their own authorities and people of merit. In general, the class of useless humanities is becoming a new revolutionary class, a terrible destroyer of everything it can reach. And if it is not possible to completely destroy it, then you can at least endlessly harass people - today all over the world - with all sorts of campaigns for anything, but more often against anything. And we repeat, a smart economist predicted this back in 1943. Here we must remember the experience of the USSR. In fact, the society there was quite dynamic. And it was full of frenzied debates, which only specialists remember today. Should we strive for the ideal of a 100% higher education in the humanities simply because it makes a person’s life brighter and more meaningful, and makes a person perfect? Should we continue such education all our lives with the help of smart books, newspapers and magazines, and with strong pressure on those who do not want to be enlightened? How to combine the vocational school system with another system? And we are still arguing about this. But never before in these debates has it turned out that the smart Austro-American economist and his followers are repeating the grumbling of our “backward” grandmothers at the entrance: everyone has become very smart, with education, but there is no one to replace the light bulb above the entrance. And there is a feeling that in this grumbling some significant rightness is revealed. | |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #2 Well Dmitry, your country's government helped start the ball rolling down this path years ago, so there's that. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2024-03-04 08:54 |
| #1 There have never been so many literate idiots And nowadays, they've taken over STEM. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-03-04 03:32 |