Americans do not value knowledge. The purpose of schools is to pass tests. Learning is something you do if you have to pass a test. Learning for learning's own sake is weird and gay.

Universities are shops where you buy access to jobs. Any degree a fifth-grader cannot directly map to a job is useles as well as weird and gay.

If you are a real masculine manly man you don't need to go to college and get a useless degree. You just need to wear a hard hat and stay away from anything that's weird or gay. If you want to be a superman of businesses entrepreneurship and innovation you should go to college only to drop out as a flex. All the cool billionaires whose careers you are totally able to emulated without having obscene generational wealth dropped out because they were too cool for school. Staying in school to get a degree is weird and gay.

From infancy you have been brought up to be a consumer. When Jesus came riding down from heaven on a bald eagle and handed the founding fathers the stone tablets with the declaration of independence and the constitution, the first and most important right afforded to you as an American was the right to consume without friction. You should have access to exactly as many easily digestible sugary treats as you want. Demanding effort of you is a violation of your constitutional rights. Holding you accountable for saying nonsense is cruel and unusual punishment. Putting in the work is weird and gay.

In the marketplace of ideas the client is always right. You might think the earth is round, I might think the earth is flat. I have the right to have my opinion and my opinion can be just as good as yours and we are many people who are sick and tired of being looked down on by the elites just for thinking differently and if you tell me I'm wrong then you are being the asshole. Actually having expertise on anything outside of pop culture trivia is weird and gay.

The average American can't read on a sixth grade level. They think Big Ben is the capital of Europe. They get genuinely confused by learning that American laws do not apply in China. But at least they are not weird and gay.

Now imagine this is your dating pool

or how an 8 hour drive isn't shorter because we use kilometers instead of miles

No it's actually longer because there are more kilometres than miles so you have to travel further in kms than you would in miles, so it takes more time

I do think it's a shining embodiment of capitalism, a lot of Americans I've met are exceptionally gregarious and at the same time being extremely resistant to budging their mind. I don't see much of a creative drive usually, it's mostly about consuming stuff and discussing how you feel about things. There isn't much of a material incentive to learn, so people don't...

Conversation also serves as a form of commodity, networking, you speak because you want something not because of the speech itself. You don't want to offend people, because it ruins your potential business opportunities - so it's best to keep the conversation shallow and simplistic. Over time this has become a subconscious feature of the culture itself where being anti-intellectual is the norm.

It conveniently also makes it much easier to control people, because the assumption is that if you're an important looking person with a big crowd, in front of a podium, well you must know what you're talking about.

It wouldn't be so bad if these people were in the least bit interested in bettering themselves in any way

But no, so many, so deeply incurious as to declare themselves above all reproach when all they know is nothing

Like, how the fuck do you live to be my age and have no desire to meet new people, go to new places and interact with new ideas?

Absolutely busted society

It's a little misanthropic of me but I do genuinely believe most people aren't cut out for critical thinking and it really highlights the need for a vanguard party

i love to hate on americans but americans are not particularly dumb or ignorant, they are more educated than most countries, it's just that they are just "too rich" (have a strong currency) compared to their actual material condition and education. a homeschooled construction worker in bumfuck Louisiana can easily pay for an internet subscription and 20 bucks for a commission but a comparable person somewhere in asia or even europe probably doesn't even have a smartphone and most certainly doesn't speak english.

maybe i am biased because in my country people show a similar amount of ignorance and it's just normal to me, but i think demographics is still a far better explanation than psychological analysis.

or how an 8 hour drive isn't shorter because we use kilometers instead of miles

That can't be real lmao what the fuck

can you uhhh... draw me as furry fucking a big mac?

what kind of porn are people commissioning that the weather and metric system are important considerations?

actually on second thought I don't want to know

I once knew a grown-ass woman who earnestly believed that, because seasons worked differently in the southern hemisphere, they were also on a different calendar, as though the equator were some kind of international month line.

She was also extremely into WWE and got married fresh out of high school, so take from that what you will.

Now imagine interacting with them on a daily basis