Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Many 2022 Republicans Accused of Assault, Threats of Murder" video.

  1.  @jboyer1435  I did a quick check because I knew the quote but wasn't certain. Everywhere I looked it was patriotism not patriotic. I think the better Asimov quote is: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov, News Week, 1980. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s. At that time I was reading Asimov's Foundation series (the one Apple+ just made into a series). Interestingly in the books one of Hari Seldon's principle reasons the Empire was going to collapse was because education was failing. Its not explicitly said but its obvious from some from some of the stories in the books. A few 100 years after the collapse a few people ventured out from the Foundation to try and re-establish the knowledge that had preserved. Most planets they found had totally collapsed into dystopian disasters, but one still had functioning power and utilities. When the person from the Foundation questioned the chief engineer of a power station they discovered that they were uneducated and that the society had regressed into a form of techno-feudalism where titles like "chief engineer" "chief surgeon" "chief judge" were inherited and NONE of those titled people were actually educated. Even back in the late 80s there were signs that America was in trouble. They weren't as obvious as they are now, but they were there. What bothers me is that Australia like most of the Western World is going down the same path. Our education systems are going backwards. You might think that with all the advances in technology engineers would be better trained now than in the 80s and you'd be wrong. There is a distinct lack of practical knowledge in fresh graduates these days. Their computer skills are staggering by comparison but their engineering skills suck. There are some very serious issues with Western society these days, not just America, and it all centers around education.
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