Because life is easy now compared to a century ago. You don't need to learn anything to get a job, not even manners or how to communicate. And that's if you even want a job. If you don't want one, live off the state.
You don't need to learn to cook. Fast food is faster, anyway. Even if you do want to heat food for yourself, all you might need to know is how many minutes it goes in the microwave for.
You don't need to learn to add up. First there were calculators, then computers, now most adding up is done for you (your bank statements, orders placed on websites, who adds up the figures themselves?)
You don't need to learn to spell. Spellcheckers tell you when you've done it wrong and now automatically correct it for you. One day, decent grammar checkers will exist.
You don't need to learn anything about history. Nobody cares about old stuff, not even about older living people.
You don't need to learn about geography. The holiday brochure shows the beaches are white and the plane takes you there. You don't even need to know how to navigate around where you live. SatNav tells you.
You don't need to know anything about maintaining your living space. Other people come in and can be paid to do that. A hundred years ago, a blocked toilet would be fixed by a caustic soda solution (the crystals would be under the sink of most households). Now we pay a hundred pounds for someone to come around, mix the solution, and unblock our toilets for us because only they are wise enough to know the unfathomable secret of mixing something with water.
We used to go out to the cinema and a newsreel would play before the film telling us what was going on in the world. Now we go to the cinema and all we get are adverts and trailers for other films as dumbed-down as the one we're here to see. If we can bothered to go at all. It's easier to sit at home and push a button to change the channel when the news comes on.
In conclusion, people aren't stupid. They're lazy. If they don't need to know something, they'll choose not to know it. People have always been lazy. That's not a new thing. What's a new thing is the ability to do virtually nothing and yet remain alive.
Yo nigga gimme my grape drank and get out my way nigga I gots me some shit to do nigga....
This niggga plato or playdoh whateveh nigga but I tells ya we gots to keep this nigga out the hood yo, he fixin to help peples get up outta here y'all.
Unless you got some pork feet you best get to steppin y'all.
Dapple makes a very interesting point. Also to the poster the reason American citizens are so stupid is the school system. The school system is lazy so will not go a extra mile to teach a child who needs extra care. They simply toss them in a class with kids they see unfit to teach. If a school fails they lower the standard so low to make sure the kids pass. They refuse to challenge kids and make you pay money to test for higher classes. Not to mention most schools have mediocre teachers as apposed to good teachers who are very qualified. Most of these teachers only know how to teach kids that are already brilliant they do not know how to teach average to below average kids.
Thank you. I'm surprised I didn't mention the education system (I work in it and see the failings you point out). I've mentioned it in plenty of other posts, though and I do agree with you.
I find it sad. I think the systems of today fail us all. The only ones they put up for display are the smart or gifted ones. Yet the smart ones only make it since they are already naturally gifted not since the country or school gave two shits about them.
You don't need to learn to cook. Fast food is faster, anyway. Even if you do want to heat food for yourself, all you might need to know is how many minutes it goes in the microwave for.
You don't need to learn to add up. First there were calculators, then computers, now most adding up is done for you (your bank statements, orders placed on websites, who adds up the figures themselves?)
You don't need to learn to spell. Spellcheckers tell you when you've done it wrong and now automatically correct it for you. One day, decent grammar checkers will exist.
You don't need to learn anything about history. Nobody cares about old stuff, not even about older living people.
You don't need to learn about geography. The holiday brochure shows the beaches are white and the plane takes you there. You don't even need to know how to navigate around where you live. SatNav tells you.
You don't need to know anything about maintaining your living space. Other people come in and can be paid to do that. A hundred years ago, a blocked toilet would be fixed by a caustic soda solution (the crystals would be under the sink of most households). Now we pay a hundred pounds for someone to come around, mix the solution, and unblock our toilets for us because only they are wise enough to know the unfathomable secret of mixing something with water.
We used to go out to the cinema and a newsreel would play before the film telling us what was going on in the world. Now we go to the cinema and all we get are adverts and trailers for other films as dumbed-down as the one we're here to see. If we can bothered to go at all. It's easier to sit at home and push a button to change the channel when the news comes on.
In conclusion, people aren't stupid. They're lazy. If they don't need to know something, they'll choose not to know it. People have always been lazy. That's not a new thing. What's a new thing is the ability to do virtually nothing and yet remain alive.
Intellect is not intelligence, and these days people know neither because they own so much of both.
This niggga plato or playdoh whateveh nigga but I tells ya we gots to keep this nigga out the hood yo, he fixin to help peples get up outta here y'all.
Unless you got some pork feet you best get to steppin y'all.
I was telling someone the other day that the saying "do things smarter not harder" created the lazy bastards we are today.