Americans don’t bother to read or learn from history

deepfriedbits a day ago | parent | next [-]

Americans are not uniquely ignorant. American ignorance is just blasted out to the entire world to see.

Terr_ a day ago | parent | next [-]

I try to walk a tricky path with foreign critics: Yes, your criticism is mostly valid, but please please do not think "it can't happen in my country", because I remember when I thought that too.

This infection on the body politic can and has jumped to infect others, and does not require an abnormally weak host to attack, and overconfidence is a kind of weakness.

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tremon a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's true. They are uniquely proud of their ignorance though. It is, as they say, the best -- the greatest. No one does it better. I mean, did you know that dumb was spelled with a -b at the end?

	▲	kulahan a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I don't know any who are. You sure you haven't just seen a few videos that were circulated online specifically because of how insane they were, or something?
	▲	ssl-3 a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Am American; have always been. I'm not proud of this stupid fucking bullshit, at all.

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adriand a day ago | parent | prev [-]

This is true, although it’s true for most if not all developed societies. People read less and less. We live in a post-literate, hyper-visual era. I am not sure if short form video is effective at educating people on why we have public health and food inspection agencies, but I confess I’m not optimistic.

	▲	nancyminusone a day ago \| parent [-]
		Video seems spectacularly promising, especially for those that cannot read, which has been a pretty high percentage historically. But it's not being done right. Nobody would rather watch a video called Food Regulations in the US when they could watch 100 Minecraft Players Compete for A Bar of Literal Gold or whatever