Now, frankly, I don't know what the idiots have to complain about. This country has done more for them than perhaps any other single segment of our
society. The constitution is packed with protections for the stupid. Grade inflation was designed especially to make them feel good about themselves.
Self-help sections in bookstores and most daytime television talk shows are focused around the idea that morons are entitled to the same self-esteem
that is enjoyed by people who actually think before they speak and act. In fact, catering to the nit-wit market has built the American entertainment
industry into the world serving behemoth it is today (there are dummies everywhere, in fact globalization threatens a shift in the global balance of
stupidity that may give an edge to more populous nations although China and India do have cultural inhibitions against some root causes of American
assininity. They for example, as societies, seem to value education more and respect for those members of society that have somewhat more
experience.)
Religious idiots are given the right to insert made up fairy tales for which is there is not nor could there be one single scintilla of evidence into
"science" books as if they really happened. They demand and are actually accorded respect for ideas that are so preposterous that they wouldn't make
it into the cosmology of Sponge Bob Square Pants. Conspiracy idiots have created an industry out of the idea that weather balloons are alien
spacecraft and that those of us who are Jewish, who have been getting our asses kicked for all of human history, are actually in control of global
affairs. Special-interest idiots are given the right to plead the case that if their children fail at math, can't spell or speak English badly enough
then rather than being taught how to correct it, tests ought to be adjusted to ignore their shortcomings or, alternatively, their linguistic
"innovations" ought to simply be treated as creativity or even as new forms of language. (You wonder why the math idiots have not managed to get
algebra and calculus revised or just dropped from the curriculum for similar reasons. But then again... they are idiots.)
rothkopf.foreignpolicy.com
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