It's sad that we worship trash, we need to get offline and create our own utopia instead of obsessing about the nonsense that comes from being a slave to an algorithm.
It just goes to show you how everything has gotten dumbed down. Institutions of learning have been replaced with social justice issues. Children's learning come's from internet, social media which are all controlled by those algorithms and then that information is sold to other parties. It has nothing to do with knowledge. One person I read occasionally speaks of the moon landing not being real. He always states look at smart phones and how much technology they have in them compared to back then. I think of life before smart phones, internet and inventions before all of that. Something simple like the hemi and when it was invented. Dodge was going out of business and they brought that old technology back and saved the company. They are doing away with it again. Watch the company now. Products were better when people cared about their job and people were hired for being the best at what they did. Products were better when they were all American made and not cheap from other countries that didn't have our standards. I can go on and on. My point is we are getting dumber as a country. Smart phones don't mean we are more advanced. Good article The Defender put out about and experiment done on some teenagers that went a month without their phones.
Imo it’s arguable that a change like you request could happen via a complete overhaul of K-12. Whether that could happen is an open question, but ought to be pursued by those with kids; ie not those with an abortion / vasectomy van outside their convention…
Right now (as has been documented by Sowell, Williams, and others), the lowest-SAT cohort in any academic college or university is that going into the schools of education, and are the “dregs of the academic community” (former Dean of BC School of Ed, in a 1984 OpEd).
These low-IQ students then are inculcated with Dewey “progressivism” (communism) through grad school and hired into can’t-be-fired unions established by JFK EO10988 (the purpose of which was and remains to funnel bipartisan tax dollars, via those unions, directly into Dem campaigns). Additionally, as it is the low-IQ most susceptible to fads, we see these people swallowing whole the absurdities of “Whole Language,” “Common Core,” “Climate Change,” “multiculturalism,”and the ongoing variations of socialism and communism, ensuring the ignorant and mal-educated voter franchise that is required to populate the “progressive” portion of the franchise.
These low-IQ teachers populate both public and private schools, btw, so moving to private for a better education is more reliant on discipline and curriculum choice than on the misplaced assumption of more-qualified teachers.
And it’s not just K-12; Boston University granted AOC, for example, a degree in economics though she believes absolutely in the most-destructive economic platform - ever: communism. (BU ought to have had its Econ accreditation pulled immediately…)
When public schools were initiated in the US, it was the case that most teachers from a college of education were more educated than the parents of the schoolkids. Hence, some level of “we know better” in academic subjects was realistic. Today, almost every parent with an AA or higher degree is unquestionably more educated than the overwhelming majority of “educators.” (Remember when we called them “teachers,” and they could?) As Ed School students seem still to be taught they know better than these parents, the Education Industrial Complex will continue to churn-out ignorant voters and to clash with parents.
Another fix to this problem might be a school district employment requirement that the children of every employee of that district be enrolled in that district. I’ve known more than a few teachers who put their own kids into private schools; if we want to improve education, this should be prohibited, much as many police agencies require their cops to live within their city.
(Tangentially, the second-dumbest college cohort has been shown to be those going into J-School. Interesting, isn’t it, that we rely on the dumbest to inform our kids and the second-dumbest to inform us…?)
Hawk Tuah is I think an example of where things go off the rails.
Consider that most revered of institutions, the university. Bastion of research, breeding ground of thoughts and ideas, the repository of all that is supposed to make us civilized.
How did it come to be in that position? By the efforts of scholars and scientists. People with names like Priestley, Curie, and Friedman.
In those same hallowed halls of academe today you have people proudly proclaiming that "math is racist". People who think that their thoughts are special because they have the "Professor" title, and the letters PhD after their name.
I'm not a professor and I don't have a PhD, but I can hold my own in discussions about economics, history, political science, philosophy, and the law with people who do. At various times I have.
I can do that because I have done the reading, the research, the thinking about economics and history and all the rest. These subjects fascinate me and I study them for my own entertainment as much as anything else.
What has happened in universities is that people view being there as proof of special worth. That having the title and the PhD are what make one's thoughts and words remarkable.
In the Gospels Jesus teaches to not be like the Pharisees, who felt themselves entitled to the places of honor just for who they were. Instead we gauge a person by their fruits, by what they say and do.
In universities, but also elsewhere such as social media, there are people who act like the Pharisees of the Gospels, who think themselves entitled without regard to their own fruits.
What is the fruit of the Hawk Tuah girl? What has she offered the world that I should pay close attention to her?
Neil Peart wrote some of the best song lyrics (poetry, really) in modern music. With Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson he created some of rock music's great masterpieces. In music's pantheon the members of Rush can stand as equals to Beethoven and Mozart. So too can Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane.
How many musicians today commit to their art the way the members of Rush have? How many artists commit to their art the way Picasso did, or Degas, or Monet? How many economists put in the time researching the way Friedman did, or the father of economics Adam Smith?
Our culture has become focused on the rewards that come from the fruits people produce, and have forgotten the fruits themselves. We prize the Pharisees over the Disciples. Our culture is not the better because of this, but the worse.
It's sad that we worship trash, we need to get offline and create our own utopia instead of obsessing about the nonsense that comes from being a slave to an algorithm.
It just goes to show you how everything has gotten dumbed down. Institutions of learning have been replaced with social justice issues. Children's learning come's from internet, social media which are all controlled by those algorithms and then that information is sold to other parties. It has nothing to do with knowledge. One person I read occasionally speaks of the moon landing not being real. He always states look at smart phones and how much technology they have in them compared to back then. I think of life before smart phones, internet and inventions before all of that. Something simple like the hemi and when it was invented. Dodge was going out of business and they brought that old technology back and saved the company. They are doing away with it again. Watch the company now. Products were better when people cared about their job and people were hired for being the best at what they did. Products were better when they were all American made and not cheap from other countries that didn't have our standards. I can go on and on. My point is we are getting dumber as a country. Smart phones don't mean we are more advanced. Good article The Defender put out about and experiment done on some teenagers that went a month without their phones.
https://open.substack.com/pub/tdefender/p/teens-smartphones-one-month-digital-detox?r=1qdxoh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Imo it’s arguable that a change like you request could happen via a complete overhaul of K-12. Whether that could happen is an open question, but ought to be pursued by those with kids; ie not those with an abortion / vasectomy van outside their convention…
Right now (as has been documented by Sowell, Williams, and others), the lowest-SAT cohort in any academic college or university is that going into the schools of education, and are the “dregs of the academic community” (former Dean of BC School of Ed, in a 1984 OpEd).
These low-IQ students then are inculcated with Dewey “progressivism” (communism) through grad school and hired into can’t-be-fired unions established by JFK EO10988 (the purpose of which was and remains to funnel bipartisan tax dollars, via those unions, directly into Dem campaigns). Additionally, as it is the low-IQ most susceptible to fads, we see these people swallowing whole the absurdities of “Whole Language,” “Common Core,” “Climate Change,” “multiculturalism,”and the ongoing variations of socialism and communism, ensuring the ignorant and mal-educated voter franchise that is required to populate the “progressive” portion of the franchise.
These low-IQ teachers populate both public and private schools, btw, so moving to private for a better education is more reliant on discipline and curriculum choice than on the misplaced assumption of more-qualified teachers.
And it’s not just K-12; Boston University granted AOC, for example, a degree in economics though she believes absolutely in the most-destructive economic platform - ever: communism. (BU ought to have had its Econ accreditation pulled immediately…)
When public schools were initiated in the US, it was the case that most teachers from a college of education were more educated than the parents of the schoolkids. Hence, some level of “we know better” in academic subjects was realistic. Today, almost every parent with an AA or higher degree is unquestionably more educated than the overwhelming majority of “educators.” (Remember when we called them “teachers,” and they could?) As Ed School students seem still to be taught they know better than these parents, the Education Industrial Complex will continue to churn-out ignorant voters and to clash with parents.
Another fix to this problem might be a school district employment requirement that the children of every employee of that district be enrolled in that district. I’ve known more than a few teachers who put their own kids into private schools; if we want to improve education, this should be prohibited, much as many police agencies require their cops to live within their city.
(Tangentially, the second-dumbest college cohort has been shown to be those going into J-School. Interesting, isn’t it, that we rely on the dumbest to inform our kids and the second-dumbest to inform us…?)
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Hawk Tuah is I think an example of where things go off the rails.
Consider that most revered of institutions, the university. Bastion of research, breeding ground of thoughts and ideas, the repository of all that is supposed to make us civilized.
How did it come to be in that position? By the efforts of scholars and scientists. People with names like Priestley, Curie, and Friedman.
In those same hallowed halls of academe today you have people proudly proclaiming that "math is racist". People who think that their thoughts are special because they have the "Professor" title, and the letters PhD after their name.
I'm not a professor and I don't have a PhD, but I can hold my own in discussions about economics, history, political science, philosophy, and the law with people who do. At various times I have.
I can do that because I have done the reading, the research, the thinking about economics and history and all the rest. These subjects fascinate me and I study them for my own entertainment as much as anything else.
What has happened in universities is that people view being there as proof of special worth. That having the title and the PhD are what make one's thoughts and words remarkable.
In the Gospels Jesus teaches to not be like the Pharisees, who felt themselves entitled to the places of honor just for who they were. Instead we gauge a person by their fruits, by what they say and do.
In universities, but also elsewhere such as social media, there are people who act like the Pharisees of the Gospels, who think themselves entitled without regard to their own fruits.
What is the fruit of the Hawk Tuah girl? What has she offered the world that I should pay close attention to her?
Neil Peart wrote some of the best song lyrics (poetry, really) in modern music. With Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson he created some of rock music's great masterpieces. In music's pantheon the members of Rush can stand as equals to Beethoven and Mozart. So too can Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane.
How many musicians today commit to their art the way the members of Rush have? How many artists commit to their art the way Picasso did, or Degas, or Monet? How many economists put in the time researching the way Friedman did, or the father of economics Adam Smith?
Our culture has become focused on the rewards that come from the fruits people produce, and have forgotten the fruits themselves. We prize the Pharisees over the Disciples. Our culture is not the better because of this, but the worse.
Thank for your in-depth and thoughtful comment. I will leave it as is, as they is nothing to add to it. It stands on its very own.
Thank you for reading,
JSV
Yours was a timely article. It tracks with a book I am working on regarding government. The intersections are quite illuminating!
Articles like yours become part of my ongoing research.
So really I should be thanking you!
I see. Very cool.
Same energy can be found here:
https://judsonvereen.substack.com/p/cultural-rot-and-our-crisis-of-authenticity-5cf?utm_source=publication-search
If you have the time and energy, it may worth it for you! Would love to earn your continued readership!
Best to you, Peter.
I shall check it out.
No surprise. That is, after all, the point of being an influencer. Higher social status and privilege...