Monday, February 18, 2008

The Dumbing Of America

Any article that uses the word "Balderdash" is worth reading.

Oh sorry..Balderdash..sound it out..Bal..der..dash...good!

"The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today's very different United States. Americans are in serious intellectual trouble -- in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

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