Thortok2000 wrote..Your statement is just a huge paradox. You're trying to a make a point about americans, yet you are largely ignorant yourself about other countries, who are you to judge a countrys way when you dont know any other country to compare it to. How many other countries have you lived in to actually compare it to the united states?
I actually would've voted for Bush, the first time, if I had voted. I've never voted even since I turned 18.
Have I ever heard of North Korea? Barely, I think it was mentioned once, off hand, in school. Is it anywhere near Vietnam? Or Thailand?
I suck at the following subjects because my schoolteachers never made me interested in them: Civics, World History, Geography, Western Civilization, similar stuff. And I don't watch TV at all, much less the news, and when on the internet I read maybe 2-3 headlines a week without reading any articles. I find basically anything non-fiction to be really boring.
And I'm not saying the country as a whole is ignorant. As someone else said, the small minority will still continue to advance in spite of the ignorant majority. Some USA citizens make some of the best advancements in some fields. I'm just saying that (mostly do the crappy education system that's been there since before Clinton) the majority of people in this country grow up stupid.
I mean, here's an ignorance check. Who invented the internet?
A) A group of teachers in USA
B) A group of scientists in USA
C) The USA military
D) One of the above answers, but not USA
Ask that of the majority of people and they won't say D, which is the true answer.
As far as you blaming the system for your own vices. History is strewn with eminent dropouts, "loners" who followed thier own trail, not worrying about its odd twists and turns because they had faith in thier own sense of direction. To read thier biographies is always exhilarating, not only because they beat the system, but because thier system was better than the one they beat.
Luckily, such noble people still turn up often enough to prove that individualism, though badly threatened, is not extinct. Much has been written, for instance, about the fitful scholastic career of Thomas P. Hoving, New York's former parks commissioner and now director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hoving was a dropout's dropout, entering and leaving schools as if they were motels, often at the request of the management. Still he must have learned something during those unorthodox years, for he dropped in again at the top of his profession.
Which only further proves the long time american dream, that no matter where you live or where you are from, the only limitation you have is yourself.
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