Light, With Intermittent Heat, Likely - Andrew Cohen
This article is enraging for all the right reasons. I’d love to rant along with the author, but I think he does a great job all on his own.
When did we make the choice to start ignoring things that didn’t entertain us?
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Everyone in America should watch “Frontline,” for example; our nation would be far better off for it. But, instead, everyone in America watches American Idol.” As a direct result, hundreds of millions of us can’t name our Supreme Court Justices, or find America on a world map, or list all of the states of the Union (never mind their capitals). In this regard, our public schools have failed us. Our technology has seduced us. And our leaders have encouraged or just capitulated to the descent. We are devolving into a “Know Nothing” nation despite our unprecedented access to first-hand information about events and issues.
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