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Secret Russian Intelligence Document Shows Deep Suspicion of China
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Entirely seriously:
The average American has a literacy level of a 6th grader. That's the mean literacy level of the entire adult (meaning 18 years old or older) population.
So... yes.
Yes, the average American is essentially a 12 year old, that is generally how old a 6th grader is in our education system.
Americans are shockingly stupid compared to most other developed countries.
Despite something like 38% of our population having a 4 year degree or higher... only somewhere around 10% or less are capable of objectively comparing and contrasting multiple news articles about the same story, highlight the differences in phrasing, framing, and identify information and context that is or is not present, and also have a general background knowledge of the publication itself, as well as general background knowledge pertaining to the story itself.
Our education system has collapsed, after 30 years of the Republicans working toward that goal, knowing that idiots are easier to manipulate.
Yeah, I'm aware. It's like that in most of the americas, possibly excuding uruguay, surinam and canada. Even in countries with great education, 50% will be below average by definition, leaving lots of room for the sneaky people, and we are living in post truth.
Even when what gets reported is verifiable, the tools of manipulation and manufacture of consent that are available nowadays are unprecedented.
With social media we invented the most state of the art, effective brainwashing machines to date and quickly started using them to start wars (of course).
Yeah, we are now at about 30ish % of the adult population with reading skills under 2nd grade level, ie, functionally illiterate.
... And that metric is almost 10% worse than it was 10 years ago.
We've gone from about 20% illiterate to about 30% illiterate in 10 years.
Normally you only see a decline like that in a country that is an active warzone, or a smaller country has been utterly devestated by an immense disaster.
If you go by ranking of countries by literacy rate, we dropped from somewhere in the top 20 to 30... to between the top 80 and 90... in ten years.
It is an utter disaster.
That's brutal. I'm sorry.
I appreciate the sentiment, on a human level, but on another, the grand scheme of things, the historical level... we deserve it, but the rest of the world doesn't deserve what will happen because of our self-imposed stupidity.
We are a dying empire, going supernova in spectacular fashion.
I can only hope that we as a country do not lash out further... but we probably will.
As I am from los Estados Unidos, I am the one that should be apologizing to the rest of the world.
When, not if, the US Dollar collapses, it will have an exaggerated effect on South American and Central American countries in particular, many of whom have largely tied their economy to its stability.
I agree with all your predictions and the geopolitical risks you mention, but as far as I'm concerned, you're cool. All around the world, everyone is ruled and bossed around by horrible people. Yours just happen to have bigger guns and the gold standard for central bank reserve currencies. I don't think it's fair to consider every single person that lives in a country/empire/whatever a bad human being or someone who deserves bad things, no matter how horrible the empire in its collective efforts.
You guys have good valuable people. I've had the fortune to meet a few and stay friends with them. I'm sure this is true for even the most perverse organizations. Some people are just there cause they didn't have any better alternatives.
The value of someone is a case by case basis thing as far as I'm concerned. There's no passport that skips the line to condemnation or salvation.
I figure it's just like in poker, you know? The cards we have, we got dealt. The question isn't why didn't we get the hand we wanted, or how could we redesign the game in order for everyone to get good cards... The game will be over by then. Only thing that matters is how we play what we're dealt.
And yes, I realize the cards both of us might get very soon might be very bad, but I guess i'd rather see if I can make some kind of play with whatever I have and have fun with the other people around me than endlessly grieve about the ones I wanted or the people that stopped me from getting em.
Much love, my friend. It's not your fault and nothing is the end of the world (believe it or not, not even the end of the world). You have nothing to apologize for that you didn't personally do freely and knowingly, and even if you have those, everyone does and most are less reflexive about it. Stay strong.