After reading Saturdays Hastings Tribune featuring stories and letters about a Bigfoot conference, guns everywhere, a creepy Daddy\/Daughter Date Night, media bias and some absurd political views, Ive come to the conclusion that many Americans are just plain dumb. <\/p>\n
A recent Psychology Today article said Dumbness has been steadily defined lately, by a combination of irresistible forces. These include the triumph of video over print culture; a disjunction between Americans rising level of formal education and their shaky grasp of basic geography, science and history; and the fusion of anti-rationalism with anti-intellectualism. <\/p>\n
Yes, there has been a long tradition of anti-intellectualism in the U.S. Much of the reason is because of our declining state of education. <\/p>\n
Im thankful we have a great learning environment here, including Hastings College, Central Community College-Hastings, and many scholarly public school teachers who place emphasis on science, research methodology and critical thinking. <\/p>\n
Lets hope our teachers, friends and neighbors begin using their brains and the fad of increasing anti-intellectualism, now found in education, politics and business, and advanced by social media, is soon reversed and reflected in stories featured in the Tribune and elsewhere. <\/p>\n
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