Tuesday, March 19, AD 2024 4:38am

Invincible Ignorance

Hattip to Ed Morrissey at Hot Air.  I hope that this blog as the years roll by will play a small role in battling  the growing ignorance among many American adults regarding the history of this country.  In the meantime, I can only repeat the sage piece of advice from the video clip below:

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DarwinCatholic
Saturday, July 3, AD 2010 8:51pm

Man… There’s the solution. Get the grandpa. He knows.

What are they teaching them in schools these days…

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Saturday, July 3, AD 2010 10:52pm

Truly frightening.

Mariana
Mariana
Sunday, July 4, AD 2010 12:57am

This is pretty bad, but think of how abysmal the average American’s knowledge of more recent history is. I mean, independence-era trivia is stuff they drum into you repeatedly, and people still can’t remember it!

restrainedradical
Sunday, July 4, AD 2010 2:48am

I’m somewhat skeptical that previous generations didn’t suffer from a similar lack of knowledge. I think we tend to compare ourselves to the best of previous generations. Had the same questions been asked of a busboy 100 years ago and we may have heard the same answers. On the other hand, the problem in past generations may have been more a lack of educational opportunities. Today, we have different problems. The plethora of entertainment options today may drive some people away from more educational media. Newspaper’s replacement isn’t only TV news or internet news, it’s also Desperate Housewives and Facebook.

Zach
Sunday, July 4, AD 2010 8:39am

Is Jaywalking really legit? I’ve always been suspicious that it’s staged.

Mike
Mike
Sunday, July 4, AD 2010 1:21pm

Zach, you have to remember two things about Jawywalking. One, it’s not live. They simply pick the funniest/dumbest answers and show those. The second thing is that it’s filmed in LA. That alone brings down the average IQ about 70 or 80 points. (No disrespect meant to LA, but c’mon, Hollywood).

DarwinCatholic
Sunday, July 4, AD 2010 2:54pm

It is pretty amazing the level of ignorance you can run into talking to people about stuff they haven’t studied at all since school. Back when I lived in LA, I used to help out with telescope demonstrations for the general public, and the sorts of ignorance you’d run into about very basic astronomical topics (number of planets, does the earth go around the sun, etc.) was pretty impressive.

Actually, the oddest one that I ran into a couple times was people who were convinced that the globe was hollow and that we lived on the inside of it. (The explanation: because if we lived on the outside we’d fall off.)

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