Donald Trump
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icmag
Where would you direct your children!
Yes but you have got to be willing to use them.doesnt the second amendment of the constitution give us protection of our right to keep and bear arms against governmental interference?????
School is in session people.Life is often less adorable than it firsts appears.
Ayn Rand and George Orwell, then the founding fathers, then Aristotle, Socrates, Marcus Aurelius.
You have to surround your self with intellectual giants if you hope to attract other critical thinkers.
But you're just running with personal anecdote. Not evidence. I would ultimately do the same, unless you request the data which suggests that this current crop of youngsters are more educated as to the issues than any other generation in the past fifty years. For our Jersey Shore, your generation (assuming) had Happy Days, or whatever it was. We can go tit-for-tack in this way all day long. We have technology, you had...whatever it is you had. But the end-result of awareness is what matters, isn't it?I don't think it would be possible for your comments to be further off base.
The current generation are a bunch of hypnotized droids. They know nothing about history, world or American. They know more about who's banging who on "Jersey Shore" than they do about their own history.They spend more time watching TV/movies and playing video games than anything else. They don't read books. They do nothing to protest the many outrages that are being perpetrated by corporate America and the government. Do you think they would have the balls to take to the streets and close down universities across the country to stop the Vietnam war, like we did? No! They are sanitized, anesthetized, and hypnotized. As long as they have a new gadget to play with every few months, they are happy. Big Brother has dominated their lives for so long, they know nothing else. Our personal freedoms have been castrated, but they don't know the difference, because they were born into it. I have a young couple who live nearby who I visit,and the female has never read a book in her life, and see's nothing wrong with that. Their information comes from movies, you tube or Google. I had co-workers who watch 4, 5, and 6 one hour TV shows per day! These people are never going to get up off their couches to protest anything. They are dumbfounded! Crippled from birth by the controlling media, and subjugated by their corporate hacks. They are stuck in this world, don't know anything else, and will never get out of it. Don't rock the boat, political correctness in all things, and if not, the man will be kicking in their doors. This country was built be revolutionaries, but that revolutionary spirit has been relegated to add campaigns and sound bytes.
A complete loss of privacy and total control by the nanny state, and they don't even notice, because it's all they've ever known. This country/empire peaked in the 50s-60s, the post World War II years, and has been in serious decline since. And it's getting worse every day.
I don't know what world you live in.
unless you request the data which suggests that this current crop of youngsters are more educated as to the issues than any other generation in the past fifty years.
Yes, infinite knowledge cannot surpass the wisdom-filled generation that gave us Vietnam and Nixon. Why bother learning? We cannot out-learn as we advance. Computers are just wastes of time, anyway.I don't know how much or how recently you have attended university or post graduate school, but no amount of data can make todays graduates smarter than those 50 years ago.
That's a misleading statement. They changed gradually over time in accordance with our increasing understanding of questioning validity via a variety of social issues. They never became "easier;" Striver considerations were race and class-based alterations, and not even close to carte blanche "easier." SAT test's change regularly and always will as our understanding of the complex issues involved changes. I'm not one of these people who thinks cultural considerations in testing is a sexy way of coding "pandering to stupidity." Maybe you are.The SAT test had to be changed because the populace was scoring lower and lower each generation.
I'm not so smug as to contend that I am in a position to universally and declaratively state the degree of "correct" within a generation while it's still unfolding. No thinking person could make such a ridiculous claim.Your qualifier "as to the issues" is really scary. Does that mean they are politically aware and correct, paying attention to the issues and all?
Having truthiness in your heart and an aversion to reading doesn't equate to EDUCATION by my understanding of the word.
SPOKANE, WA. APRIL 28, 2011 -- At approximately 2 p.m. today federal law enforcement in Spokane, Washington began executing a raid against a medical cannabis provider, THC Pharmacy. The move comes after threats from the two U.S. Attorneys in Washington State and as Governor Gregoire considers the fate of a bill to license medical cannabis providers and create a state registry of medical cannabis patients.
The raids also coincided with a so-called “raid training” in Spokane presented by two activist groups. The training, planned for 1-4 p.m., excused early so that attendees could protest the raid.
A third and final raid training is scheduled for Friday, April 29 from 1-4 p.m. at Black Hall Room 151 on the Central Washington University campus in Ellensburg. A stakeholders meeting is planned from 10-4 Saturday at the Cannabis Resource Center in Seattle.
"You have to surround your self with intellectual giants if you hope to attract other critical thinkers."
A good line up Hydrosun. Isn't Ayn Rand kind of a bad word now though?
I haven't read her works, but thought it was all about free market capitalism, personal gains and more or less outdated and perhaps misconstrued by business and law schools in molding free agents of doom... mean hell Machiavelli is a damn good read
I know it must be hearty material, just thought that this may be one where how you digest it really counts
And this is why we can't do math and science. Any asshole can talk shit for six pages and turn in a poseur-ish, amateur hour rant on Ayn Rand or something like this. But in order to fiddle with calculus, adult work is involved. And why bother with that?
"education"....har! thats a family/individual issue in "developed" societies.....teach your children well and if you feel you need to learn, then learn.
john taylor gatto. check him out. the western education system has been/was/is poison from the get-go. its all in the history baby.
as for 'enterlectuals'......those posted by....hydro-sun, yessah?......indeed exceeded in divine thought in respective areas, but were cancerous monsters in some areas....mostly in large...empathy........founding fathers? a great fable to be compared to the bible in a few hundred years ...if either are at yer local "library"........old white elitist assholes (w/slaves)....bangin' some of those slaves......that had HUGE land delas to be made when they said UP YO'S england with yer "respect the savages" laws....we'll take it anyways!!......
read it, deny it, call bullshit, hate it, secretly acknowledge it....wtfever. i beseech you.....all this "corruption" in politics today ....today?.......the dewds in the wigs set the precedent. and it obviously holds sway today. anti-american?...no, yes, sure w/ever....it's an idea, im breathing
if there is a point to this deluge im spewing....rise above what is not real and essential........SATs and intelligence comparisons to yonder years.....the word 'intelligence' itself is so friggin loaded, i snicker at it. daniel goleman, 'emotional intelligence'.....howard gardner's theory of seven 'intelligences'....read what they have to say about the almighty I.Q. kaka.........whose "smarter"?........ha, whose got more cancer? ......awareness trumps intelligence in the end. as we move along this dazzle-me society and the hooks go deeper, the split between the people who are interested in building and giving versus the oxygen-thieves and vampires will widen.......
AOD2012 ^ flux451......tinfoilers.....(in jest.........im a good bit older than you "young'ns"......that level of 'stupidity' you encounter(which i believe is mostly ...fear)...is quite prevalent<sp> among yer elders....where the hell d'jou think ya got it from?
i live among some 'intellectuals' and some people who happen to be pretty damn smart......and some mouth-breathers.........when i talk my tinfoil shit to the various sub-groups, the MOUTH-BREATHERS are the ones who get it....the 4th-genny dirt farmers are the ones that understand that whats going on now will end up in a can'o WHOOP the size of nebraska being opened up ...either by the mother E or by greed. the handlers of our great nations/banks/economies are riding this bitch into the ground, awareness of the fact that itsa possibility.....growing weekly/monthly....is a pretty sober and healthy way to start looking at it.
and start growing food.....and above all, love the gift ya got....its only a ride.
rip bill hicks
As long as people have 24 hour streaming movies, that's all they really care about. I don't even recognize this country anymore.
The younger generation are completely hypnotized by YouTube & Facebook.
There is no chance of a revolution.
The feds have all the power.
The founding fathers would roll over in their graves at the notion of this police state.
It's totally out of control, getting worse, and I don't know what we can do about it.
. This is one of the prime reasons we as a FREE NATION are allowed to posses firearms. No nation is free unless this right is given because when an army stands above unarmed citizens, the citizens are only free as long as allowed.