Why are college students nowadays so fucking stupid?
I don't know if it's just me, but I think that college students nowadays seem shockingly ignorant and incompetent, don't seem to know shit about anything, no matter what subject they're studying.
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MonteMetcalfe
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[Old Memory]
Nobody teaches Marxism in this day and age, not the least something as marginal as Bolshevism. Marxists got replaced by postmodernists and postcolonialist theorists some time ago, both of these belief sets notable for their rejection of both the teleology and universalism inherent in most Marxist doctrines.
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Grunewald
Actually, postcolonialism and postmodernism take a Marxist understanding of the world as their basis. They are concerned with doing away with what they call 'Judeo-Christian orthodoxies'.
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[Old Memory]
"marxism" is an ideology which is concerned with the transformation of capitalism, brought about through internal contradictions inherent in the capitalist mode of production. it is universalist insofar as it has pretentions of being a materialist science, and teleological insofar as it tends to view history as something which is moving ineluctably towards the final culmination of man, namely, the creation of a classless, stateless society of abundance known as "communism". It is not so concerned with doing away with 'judeo-christian orthodoxies' so much as it IS a set of judeo-christian orthodoxies, albeit in secularized form.
Post-modernists, broadly speaking, can be understood both by their rejection of teleology and grand narratives (marxism is full of these), and by their tendency to reject scientific realism. They are a fairly heterogenous group, and to say that they are "concerned with doing away with what they call 'Judeo-christian orthodoxies'" betrays a serious understanding of both Marxism and postmodernism.
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MonteMetcalfe
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DADNSCAL
I agree. A 4.0 GPA today is worth a 3.0 back in 1980. I went back to school in ‘97 and couldn’t believe how backward college graduates were. For example, the teacher asked if 1/3 of all people exposed to AIDS get infected, and 1/3 of those infected get AIDS, what percentage of those exposed get AIDS, and I quickly said 11%. The young graduates looked at me like I was a fucking genius.
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Correction
A&W once tried to get more costumers by selling a 1/3 lb burger for the same price as a 1/4 lb burger at McDonald’s. It was a miserable failure because everybody thought they’d be getting less meat. They thought a third was less than a quarter.
This was in the 1980’s.
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olderdude-xx
They are not any more stupid than any other generation.
I view that they are a lot more ignorant and have not been trained to think critically in Jr High and High School like previous generations were trained.
Those who decide that they want to learn and be productive can catch up on a few years. Those who aren't willing (just want to be part of some current movement or belief system that feeds them junk) are causing a lot more harm today because their are a lot more of them.
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1WeirdGuy
They seem smart but incredibly dumb at the same time. Many of them sound low testosterone too with the whiny voice.
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hauntedbysandwiches
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[Old Memory]
Because degrees mean jack shit. It's easy as all hell to study intensively right before an important test and pass it with ease without actually knowing anything because you've just memorized stuff you hardly understand, basically. Yet degrees are becoming increasingly more important for getting hired, it wouldn't surprise me if you end up even needing one to work fast food.
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Grunewald
Out with the old orthodoxies; in with the new ;-). I guess Western society under a Judeo-Christian worldview didn't bear uniquely bad fruit after all.
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[Old Memory]
college is about making money, and sometimes, you can do that by creating useless majors which will get people degrees but won't help them in the real world. Also, tons of people work jobs that don't even need degrees, but they get them anyway, simply because employers demand them. with more people going to college (including people who really have no business there), and with colleges looking to cash in on all that dough, naturally, they're going to expand quantity of people allowed to enter (i'd argue, at the expense of quality sometimes). college is a business, and these businesses have vested interest in letting people of lower intelligence in sometimes because it might help the bottom line.
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