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Unified Theory of American Reality

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The average American is as literate as a 5th to 6th grader.

    thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-litera…

    5th to 6th graders are 10 to 12 years old, normally.

    So uh… yep, mhm, the average American is about as stupid as a 12 year old, that’s a bit on the optimistic side though.

    Dude’s theory isn’t really wrong, Americans are dumb and immature as fuck, and yes the statistics exist to back that up.

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  • halvar@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Well that’s basically the premise of populism. Your policy is doing whatever most of your audience would first think of doing (with no subtlety at all so as not to seem to smart or distant to them) then you just ignore the consequences when they come to bite you in the ass and most people won’t think all those bad things are a result of your own stupid policy, because they believe it was perfectly logical and flawless to begin with.

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  • cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Twelve year olds are more advanced, make it 8.

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    • wesker@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sounds like something a president on a list would say.

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      • SlacksMcTavish@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        He does keep drawing the line at 12…

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  • salacious_coaster@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is very accurate. In my twenties, I worked on myself relentlessly to try to become “grown up”. Eventually I looked around and realized that hardly anyone else was doing that, and people twice my age were still acting like children. Then they elected a man-boy King in their image.

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    • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I too passed the self-imposed ritual. It has not made me happy, but it helped me understand why I wasn’t.

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      • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        damn. well said

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  • cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Now that I think about it, the situation in the US really does play out like an unconscionable large version of Lord of the Flies.

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    • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is pretty spot on.

      Ralph was just trying to help organize and make everyone’s lives better. He was ignored and his life was threatened.

      Simon, the insightful one, was trying to get people to see reason to quell their mania. He was murdered.

      Piggy, the intelligent and compassionate one, was murdered.

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      • erin@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Intelligent, compassionate, and a vessel for the author’s racist worldview.

        Don’t mind me. I hate that book, and I hate that it’s taught in every school as if it has anything important to say. We’ve run the Lord of the Flies experiment, both accidentally and very intentionally. Every time, we’ve demonstrated that humans are better than that, and the author’s beliefs about human nature were both very incorrect and very racist.

        I still resent being forced to debate my classmates about whether human nature was intrinsically “good” or “evil,” directly after reading that book, even though it was 25 years ago. I was the lone voice on the side of “good,” for lack of a “good and evil are subjective terms, but nonetheless humans are empathetic and this book is horseshit” team. I got dogpiled by 20 some other students for about 45 minutes. Fuck you Ms. Brown, and fuck you William Golding. That book has nothing important to say other than exposing its author’s racist insecurities.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    True. When I was young I thought why don’t we use the military domestically. Yeah it doesn’t work.

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    • deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It actually works really well, if your goal is fascism.

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  • BilSabab@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Makes too much sense. Is this guy CIA?

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    • ShittDickk@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Since 2012 twelve year olds controlled the memes, also when an explosion of boomers joined social media. We’ve been letting the kids parents the adults for 13 years now.

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      • BilSabab@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        the worst kind of 12yo is the one who want to change the world for the better but they’re fucking stupid so their well intensions end up serving the bad guys and screwing everybody else. the story of ukrainian NGOs - literally did the dirty job for oligarch and stayed in denial until the stink became biohazard.

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  • EvilFonzy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This lines up with what I’ve been shouting into the void whenever I read a news article. “Where are the fucking adults?!”

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    • 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You just made me remember that book that came out in his first term reassuring everyone that there were “adults in the room” protecting us from certain doom.

      What a crock of shit that turned out to be.

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      • Tower@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Eh, I think that his 2nd term kind of helps validate that view of his 1st. Because he was a political newbie, he allowed those around him to help make staffing decisions, so you got mostly run of the mill Republicans. Terrible, certainly, but not sycophants. That’s all out the window this time. Key positions are filled based solely on either fealty to the mad king or ✨campaign contributions✨ (bribes). Anyone who dares speak out gets the axe, and at least for now it’s a metaphorical one.

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    • tetris11@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      when you reach the milestone of adulthood and take a peek behind the veil of responsibility…

      … maybe Larry Niven was right in Ringworld, humanity’s only defining trait is not our intelligence, but our luck.

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  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Twelve year-old attitude, 2 year-old selfishness.

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  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a nation filled to the brim with children trapped in adult bodies.

    This is not an opinion because I’m perpetually online. I go outside and they’re there too. Literally everywhere.

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    • KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I was a shut-in before the 2024 Election. I figured social spaces there were somewhat immature because the mature people would have jobs and real life involvement. Then I started going outside, and I lost all hope. I’m too stupid for people to be this dumb. (Though I’ll admit, social media, algorithmic content, and the AI products probably made people dumber.)

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s actually worse outside, which is why I am terminally online.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Already a term for it… maybe they weren’t aware of it on account of being twelve.

    theconversation.com/the-infantilization-of-wester…

    en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantilization

    Smacks of condescension, elitism, and historical naivety while being a short step away from bemoaning degenerated modernity to me.

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    • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Smacks of condescension, elitism, and historical naivety

      Sorry, socially engineered infantilization is just an explanation, not a justification.

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  • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We already have a word for that phenomena, it’s called fascism

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    • axx@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I don’t think I’ve ever read a description or definition of fascism where the population being immature is a thing.

      What do you mean?

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      • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        The elements of fascism could be construed as a childish/immature perception of reality, where the performance/aesthetics of maturity (particularly as perceived by chauvinistic men) is paramount. The examples listed in this post speak to uniformed (i.e childish) views on power, masculinity, and justice. These topics, among others, are sticking points of every flavor of fascism.

        I’m not necessarily saying that this means the american population is immature, but our current fascist regime utilizes these tropes (among other elements of american culture) in their rhetoric, propaganda, and policy decisions to influence the population in pursuit of fascist ends.

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