"Richard Webb -> BOB KLAHN" <1:116/901> wrote in news:288   
   $CONTROVERSIAL@JamNNTPd:   
      
    RW>> And this surprises you how?   
      
    BK>>  Saddens, not surprises.   
      
    RW> Doesn't do either for me, angers me.  We don't teach kids   
    RW> civics anymore, we just keep dumbing it down and dumbing it   
    RW> own, but the big fascists who really have a lot to gain like a dumbed   
    RW> down populace.   
      
    RW> Most of these pieces of human garbage would discount and   
    RW> ridicule the scientists who put the toys they now enjoy in   
    RW> their hands.  tHey have no clue whatsoever what gave them   
    RW> their little satellite dish and their fifty-seven channels   
    RW> of nothin' on.   
    RW> Sometimes I thank god I'm already on the down side of the   
    RW> slippery slope, at least I won't get to see the worst of   
    RW> what the fascists and their dumbed down masses will create.   
    RW> I am truly I left offspring behind to be part of it however.   
      
   Not suprising to me in the least.   
      
   And it's nothing new, popular media denigrates intellectual achievments.   
      
   Back in the 1950's, Isaac Asimov wrote an essay called "The Cult Of   
   Ignorance" decrying this, using the example of a movie, showing a woman who   
   does research, but she isn't "happy" until Mr Tall Dark And Handsome sweeps   
   her off her feet, she dumps her research to marry TD & H.   
      
   Obama gets denigrated for being "too intellectual/elite," while George W   
   Bush was "just a guy we could have a beer with."   
      
   --- Xnews/5.04.25   
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