Comments by "ncwordman" (@ncwordman) on "Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Actually This Dumb?" video.

  1. I don't think it's right to blame "the education system." First, what are we even blaming then, and how do we fix the entire system? Schools and school teachers are not responsible for their former students seeking continuing, life long self education. If their students stop reading, except little bits here and there online, on Facebook or forums, then their teachers have no control over the ignorance that results. The practical purpose of formal education is to teach you how to teach yourself, which you'll need to do for the rest of your life. Imagine Marjorie sitting at home reading Dickens, or Henry Miller, or Carl Sagan. You think maybe she's a big fan of poetry, like Joy Harjo, or Lawrence Ferlinghetti? Think she prefers the Beats to the Romantics? Do you think Trump and his supporters read Kurt Vonnegut, or Anais Nin? And that's just literature. You think they're reading about science? Maybe studying calculus in their spare time? How many musical instruments do they know, or how many foreign languages? Have they spent any time in the last 20 years reading anything at all? No. And that's why they're stupid. Not because of "the education system," whatever that is. They're stupid because they study nothing at all, and refuse to even spend a quiet evening reading.
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