...we're gonna have to re-evaluate old concepts of free speech and democracy.

Everyone's on anti depressants/sleepers/speed, the chuds are blasting testosterone out their ears until they stroke, weed is everywhere and as potent as heroin.

Add the perfect dopamine delivery system, a political internet economy modeled on the addictive technology of vegas slot machines.

It's gonna have an effect on the national psyche.

Is it a partial explanation for Q?

Shout out to the divorced, biker, small business tyrant, dad...caught with test injectables and thc edibles, and guns, after the Capitol. Just the only man for the moment.

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edit: gotta step away for now. will come back to this. Feels like this post was misunderstood, or I just didn't make enough sense. Hope it won't make things awkward when i slide into selected PMs asking for a plug 😀

  • late90smullbowl [they/them]
    hexagon
    ·
    4 years ago

    maybe a garbage education system in the cartographic shit stain that is the american empire has some culpability?

    I literally said that in the OP......Plummeting education levels.

    Don't think I made any value judgements, just observations on the side effects.

    • JackDecker [comrade/them]
      ·
      4 years ago

      Plummeting education levels

      Highscool completion rates raised from 34.3% in 1950 to 90.1% in 2019. Bachelor's or higher rates raised from 6.2% in 1950 to 36% in 2019.

      Source

      • late90smullbowl [they/them]
        hexagon
        ·
        4 years ago

        I would posit that between 1950/2019 the syllabus and teaching methods have been purged of even the most milquetoast progressive concepts and ideas, the humanities (politics, history, literature) have been made optional and marginalised, and people can graduate college without having taken a module outside their narrow technical training.

        Critical thinking is not taught.

        Religious schools and colleges are everywhere and what they sell is legitimized.

        That's what I mean by plummeting education levels.