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Have Americans always been this stupid?
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i have no idea because I'm not like 120 years old. i was just old enough to start forming opinions during obama.
you get a filtered version of history i think. there were some incredible idiots in the 60s, things happening that made no sense and americans who were in support of it all.
the tools of manipulation are probably more agile and effective now. i don't know what else is intrinsically different.
You don’t need to be 120 to know history. All it requires is learning it. Problem is people would rather bury their head in the sand and go comatose as they doom scroll social media.
Read that short column by Asimov elsewhere in the thread. It's a photo of a column in Newsweek so it should be easy to find. It was written in 1980 - three and a half years before I was born, and he's bemoaning anti-intellectualism and the rising acceptance of ignorance being just as valuable as the opinion of an expert.
If he could have seen what the internet has done, social media specifically, I can't imagine what he'd think. Social media with 24/7 access to anything that will tell you what you feel in your gut is right. Yeah, we're dumber than we've ever been since before literacy became ubiquitous.
You call it an filtered version of history and you're exactly right. I'd say it's more filtered than ever before. Not just history is filtered but the very evidence of the current day from your eyes and ears is filtered in real time.