Based upon my own experience in public schools in my younger years, I can say that there is little critical thinking encouraged. Colleges have become just about the same with the dominance of Political Correctness. The results are obvious to see: a populace that is illiterate in logic, civics, and even the fundamentals of economics. A dumb and malleable populace that loves a good show but can’t stand to think, or even calculate, the consequences of their actions.
I realized how especially damaging it has been with the whole controversy of the Dubai Port Ops deal from a couple of summers ago. I was amazed at how little people know of international commerce, let alone maritime commerce. My husband is in the maritime industry and so are just about all of his buddies: they had zero problem with it. Everyone else who had no clue about maritime issues, however, made a huge stink of it.
One quote that I saw at this one old encyclopedia that I found at an antiques store in Aransas Pass says it all: “It was not the Barbarians that destroyed Rome, but the free circuses.” Maybe Comedy Central will write the epitaph for the United States of America. I don’t count on it.
