It appears that Plato would have taken as rather dim view of what we’re doing here in the United States.
There is no doubt that American education is in decline, but there is a lively debate as to why. Some social critics, e.g., the late George Carlin, say that it’s a deliberate attempt to make sure that middle-class people, while they’re capable of working in our factories and grocery stores, are incapable of understanding how badly they’ve gotten screwed by the wealthy.
Another theory is that all is simply the result of the neoliberalism that came along about 1980, where the entire public sector–any aspect of government that is designed to help the common American–is being crushed to death.
If you’re a competent woman working at the highest echelon in the U.S. government, better start packing your bags.
Today we had another “assassination attempt.”
Is it the fourth or the fifth? I lost track after his ear grew back.
Eventually, after perhaps 20 or 30, even the most dimwitted American will recognize that he’s been played.
Trump is a man of God like I’m a bald eagle.
How Much Further Does the Trust of the American People Extend?
I’ve often wondered why people like this German woman, an ultra-right-wing politician with no more training in this subject than my gardener, is taken more seriously than the many thousands of scientists who have been studying climate physics for all their adult lives.
And Germany? Anti-science?
Yes, this sect is minor, but how does it exist at all?
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