Why is it that in a country where we pay people to figure out how fast a monkey turd can hit the ground as it falls from a tree, how many hairs the average gorilla sheds during the summer, how many pounds of gas the average elephant produces, how many years breast implants last...
...we still can't seem to grasp the idea that schools should not serve children chilli nachos and french fries in a country where juvenile obesity and diabetes is at epidemic levels?
2006-12-18 17:20:08 · 13 answers · asked by blazenphoenix 4 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
That's awesome, you have hit the nail on the head...you're my new hero! :o)
2006-12-18 17:35:03 · answer #1 · answered by ♥austingirl♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Such blind spots are almost certainly down to the blindness of arrogance - a uniquely human failing which has led to the downfall of great civilizations - even great movements and great ideas - many times before...!
Thus, I venture to suggest that America's hubris is now so firmly entrenched, even amongst its greatest scientific thinkers, that the mere possibility of failure has ceased to be regarded as a realistic consideration.
In addition to your own examples - and even more worryingly - I submit that today's ever-ascending spiral of realistic horror and violence currently contaminating every aspect of our visual arts is already way out of control - leading to this youth-obsessed culture's drug-accelerated insensitivety to vile crime, cruel brutality and the inevitable disintegration of Western society.
Hardly surprising in a nation so "stupid" that its overriding preoccupations, these days, are global money-making and warmongering.
2006-12-19 02:07:56 · answer #2 · answered by TruthHurts 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, it's just that way too many people in control of the the government and school system were indoctrinated by the ghost of the Third Communist International, mostly in the '60s and '70s. It is those people who are stuck on stupid.
Why on Earth would you expect a socialistic educational system to be anything but defective?
2006-12-19 01:30:16 · answer #3 · answered by Boomer Wisdom 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A very good question. People just don't care anymore. They don't want to eat heathy food when there exists poison that tastes better.
The knowledge is out there but as long as there are people making money off of other people's stupidity, then it will continue. It's all about the money.
2006-12-19 01:51:30 · answer #4 · answered by ♨ Wisper ► 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In America, anything is possible. It is a nation of possibilities. So all the misfits are also in America. America likes to be different, it is nothing near 'being conservative'. While all other nations strive to have surplus in their International Balance of Trade, America gets the kick of having Deficit for so many years that it now landed itself not in Mars but is in deep s**t.
If you drew the world map on your butt, you can guess which country will be right in the middle.
2006-12-19 01:41:45 · answer #5 · answered by catcher 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
we also fail to realize that reform and education in prisons and jails makes the recivism rates go way down. yeah. the thing is we know all this ****, but we are so lazy and cheap that we do what is easy
2006-12-19 02:44:17 · answer #6 · answered by Kevy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep
2006-12-19 05:36:19 · answer #7 · answered by joybelle with warm water 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have definitely rolled back to stupid. We even elect stupid people. Which is sad because we are a country of smart people.
2006-12-19 01:24:46 · answer #8 · answered by Serinity4u2find 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
no because america is just america. it is the people that changes the country, not itself.
2006-12-19 01:27:18 · answer #9 · answered by AARmy 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
America is messed up
When they all get heart attacks, they will (hopefully) realize thier mistakes
2006-12-19 01:25:38 · answer #10 · answered by Mezmerize 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋