Apathy comes from depression and grasping at things that don’t make sense can be read as anxiety. America failed to develop an educational system and now has no clue how to cope with stresses being applied to it.
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switcheroo@lemmy.world 2 days ago
A third of the US are beyond help, beyond fucking stupid. Another third can’t be arsed to do anything, they’re so apathetic. One will follow without question, the other might go either way.
Also Shitler put RFK in place, so we’re all forced to hear his moronic opinions…
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 days ago
Joeffect@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It didn’t fail its been slowly dismantled for years… they want people to be dumb so they can control them…
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 day ago
That swings too close to conspiracy theory territory. Hanlon’s razor still applies. The powerful didn’t say ‘I want them dumb, so I will defund the schools.’ They said ‘I don’t get anything out of paying for other people’s schooling, so I won’t.’ Then it was ‘just world’ bias combined with PR to bring it into the mainstream.
Defeating the just world bias at scale is probably one of the greatest hurdles to achieving anything really great on a societal level. How do you achieve a sane middle ground between ‘I deserve everything I experience. Luck had nothing to do with it,’ and ‘I have no agency whatsoever.’?
ramenshaman@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Some people in that first third aren’t that stupid but they’re gullible and insecure. Maybe also a little stupid. My girlfriend’s dad, for example. He’s not the sharpest tool in the shed, I think he’s about average intelligence, but he’s gullible and insecure. I think he got sucked in when he started listening to some questionable podcasts.