Anti-intellectualism and fake news aside, we’re fomenting a slide towards idiocracy. There are some basic things we can do to slow that slide. The staff here is guilty of thinking inside safe space opinion bubbles. They’re hard to pop when you think you have the right info. We need to rebuild public discourse from a more basic and easily agreed to truths.
It’s time to promote and reward the learning of basic civics lessons. What a wonderful moment to see that STEM isn’t the only field of value to society.
STEM (STEAM too) exacerbated the fake news issue we are feeling so acutely, but as the writer points out, the real problem is that most folks don’t have a sufficient grasp of civic fundamentals.
How can we expect people to see through the propaganda and marketing if they never learned basic functions of our government, etc.
We’re With Stupid https://nyti.ms/2jz6NUS