This makes me think about how a good portion of Americans can’t read above a 6th grade level and that’s just an avrg so some are lower. I wonder can they listen and understand above that grade level?
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And after seeing how gullible the uneducated are, they want to destroy what's left of the education system. no intelligent person will believe their lies.
Most who read at that grade level probably do everything in their lives at the 11-12 year old level. This explains everything like modern country music, adults watching monster truck shows, Larry the Cable Guy’s sold out tours. They never grew up beyond absolute base-level functional humans.
Hard disagree. Those people exist in every ability and class level in our society. Somebody is buying the $3,000 front row tickets to Jason Aldean concerts. Many are just allowed to fail upward bc of the class/status they were born into.
Spare me. You’re showing open contempt for people less educated and less intellectually capable than yourself. Focus on material condition and it relation to labor
I have open contempt for the willfully ignorant. And the absolute utmost sympathy for the non willfully ignorant. But of course you’d never ask that before you come in hot. I have neither time nor inclination to place disclaimers in front of everything to appease those searching for outrage fodder.
Be serious. You used a gif of a person with intellectual disabilities. Like I said, it would be growth for you, but not everyone has the grit to turn their critical gaze inward. Hope you are able to find that for yourself someday.
Aristotle made that point about 2300 years ago in "Politics", when he described the tendency of tyrannies and oligarchies to fail because tyrants' kids are seldom as capable as the tyrant.
Actually, there's a lot of Politics, book 5, chapter 12 that applies these days.
While I do disagree with generalizing, "they like X so they are unintelligent", there is a big difference between those who are WILLINGLY ignorant, who could learn more and be more, but do not, and then those who have intellectual disabilities. We should "devalue" those who are willfully ignorant.
This is kinda mixing culture, and such. I knew very intelligent gay furries, like the IT admin kind, who loved Larry the Cable Guy because they got his bit, and that it was a bit. There are people who say, get wrestling is staged, and still like wrestling.
"A good portion" != "Average". Specifically, <20% of adults are functionally illiterate (coincidentally, roughly the percentage who fail to graduate high school for some reason or another).
America's literacy situation ain't great, but let's not overcook it.
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Actually, there's a lot of Politics, book 5, chapter 12 that applies these days.
America's literacy situation ain't great, but let's not overcook it.