A new poll actually says this. I’ve been listening to pundits and the talking heads try to figure this one out. It’s simple. This country is filled with anti-intellectuals. I don’t need know book-learning. I’ll just pray to Leonardo Da Vinci’s nephew. Sophisticated people recognize Hillary as a political chameleon. She tailors her persona and comments to the audience. Barack simply speaks his heartfelt message of changing things and solving problems. This county is extremely dumbed down, it’s no wonder they look to Hillary as a viable candidate for president. She’s arbitrary and capricious (lawyer’s love that phrase). But let’s talk more about anti-intellectualism. There is a real backlash toward science, facts, and learning. It’s not hip to want to be an engineer or scientist. This country is filled with wanna-be American Idol contestants and the next reality ‘star.’ This country is obsessed with a high school DROPOUT who is going in and out of LA county jail like its Macy’s department store just because she’s rich. Why do you need college if you’re already rich? College is not to make you rich. College exposes your puny mind and limited experiences to different things in the world. You know the other 5.75 billion people on earth (where more than half that number is either Indian or Chinese)??? As my mother says all the time: they could fill Freedom Hall with all the stuff you don’t know. We need to up the bar on all levels of discourse in this country. We need to reed books and novels not tabloids and gossip rags. Who cares about celebrity news? Does anyone know that the father of modern African literature, the writer of Things Fall Apart (the title of one the CDs of the Roots), recently received an award for his body of fiction. He helped give an African perspective on European colonialism. Which is why there are so many problems in modern
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