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In reply to the discussion: 99% of the problem. [View all]

slightlv

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43. I think they actually started with the Public School System...
Thu Oct 24, 2024, 07:01 PM
3 hrs ago

downgrade it and demean it to the point no critical thinking skills are taught anymore. Without the ability to think critically about subjects you lose the ability to tell right from wrong, truth from lies. The longer it goes on, the less likely you are to try to think in any way about something.

Start with the kids, and they pass on the ignorance from one generation to the next, aided and abetted by the public schools, which no longer teach the higher functions kids need to become genuine, thinking adults.

99% of the problem. [View all] 634-5789 13 hrs ago OP
Wow, I never read that before. Bluethroughu 12 hrs ago #1
I've seen it before. We all need reminders of shit like this from time to time...nt Wounded Bear 12 hrs ago #6
I'll never forget it. Bluethroughu 12 hrs ago #7
My immediate response also. WOW. liberalla 12 hrs ago #15
It's the essence of gaslighting, a common tactic of narcissists. wnylib 11 hrs ago #19
Yes DENVERPOPS 10 hrs ago #25
I think it was in L. Fletcher Prouty's book, ostensibly about JFK assassination, but in actuality more on the dirty LT Barclay 3 hrs ago #45
You mean that's how he keeps it Warpy 24 min ago #49
Wonder how she survived WWII KS Toronado 12 hrs ago #2
*she LoveTheDU 12 hrs ago #4
Hannah Arendt lived her final years in NYC having escaped the Nazis in 1940 FakeNoose 12 hrs ago #5
LOL, should have looked closer at the name, Thanks KS Toronado 12 hrs ago #9
K&R c-rational 12 hrs ago #3
War brings out the worst in people. What else would a war on truth summon? jaxexpat 12 hrs ago #8
War brings out the worst in many people, soldierant 7 hrs ago #34
I'm compelled to think every one of those persons would condemn war in no uncertain terms. jaxexpat 5 hrs ago #38
I often wonder why, in the past when there were only an estimated 100 million people IN THE WORLD LT Barclay 2 hrs ago #46
It is no coincidence that Republicans dominate the US military. It's just a shame. jaxexpat 1 hr ago #48
Bought The Origins of Totalitarianism after Jan 6 jfz9580m 12 hrs ago #10
Got it in college from a retiring Poli Sci prof... lastlib 4 hrs ago #40
An excellent point by the woman who famously described Eichmann as an expression of the "banality of evil." NNadir 12 hrs ago #11
Besides Trump and the GOP Farmer-Rick 12 hrs ago #12
And it is best when you can wrap your tyrrany in a flag and coat it with religion. erronis 12 hrs ago #13
But those stories were born out of allegory. LisaM 10 hrs ago #23
When I was a kid Farmer-Rick 8 hrs ago #32
Thank you. soldierant 7 hrs ago #35
And they're the dangerous ones. n/t lastlib 4 hrs ago #41
I recently found out of a currently existing earthquake in fundamental truth in my family. Tetrachloride 12 hrs ago #14
How true birdographer 12 hrs ago #16
Hannah Arendt is a great read bucolic_frolic 11 hrs ago #17
She truly was brilliant Wiz Imp 11 hrs ago #20
Very interesting and so true TommieMommy 11 hrs ago #18
Truth! KnR. n/t iluvtennis 11 hrs ago #21
Wow! That is an AMAZING quote. calimary 10 hrs ago #22
AI seems designed to carry out this philosophy. LisaM 10 hrs ago #24
Small Wonder? jfz9580m 10 hrs ago #27
I can no longer distinguish between... lame54 10 hrs ago #26
Precisely what is happening in America dlk 9 hrs ago #28
Hannah called it "the banality of evil". Ping Tung 9 hrs ago #29
According to the Hannah Arendt Center for Humanities and Politics this is not an accurate quote. Jim__ 9 hrs ago #30
That's the only strategy of the MAGA GOP: make the American people doubt the integrity and usefulness Martin68 9 hrs ago #31
I think they actually started with the Public School System... slightlv 3 hrs ago #43
This message was self-deleted by its author Mosby 8 hrs ago #33
Corollary: The Republicans being lied to believe this quote describes Democrats. Beartracks 7 hrs ago #36
Indeed they do. MontanaMama 6 hrs ago #37
A lot of the things that MAGATS believe Mr.Bill 4 hrs ago #42
It's that oldie that R's are so well known for... Projection! n/t slightlv 3 hrs ago #44
A most amazing and profound human being. Kid Berwyn 5 hrs ago #39
Right out of Putrid's book uponit7771 2 hrs ago #47
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