If you were half as smart as you thought you were the is is what you should pay attention to from the video:
“The new dumbness is particularly deadly to middle and upper-class kids already made shallow by multiple pressures to conform Imposed by the outside world on their usually lightly rooted parents when they come of age They are certain they must know something because their degrees and licenses say they do they remain so convinced until an unexpectedly brutal divorce a corporate downsizing in midlife or Panic attacks of meaninglessness upset the precarious balance of their incomplete humanity Alan Bullock the English historian said evil was a state of incompetence If true our school adventure has filled the 20th century with evil Ellul puts it this way the individual has no chance to exercise his judgment either on principal questions or on their Implication once personal judgment and critical faculties have disappeared or have atrophied They will not simply reappear when propaganda is suppressed years of intellectual and spiritual education Would be needed to restore such faculties the propagandee if deprived of one propaganda will immediately Adopt another this will spare him the agony of finding himself vis-a-vis some event without a ready-made opinion According to all official analysis dumbness isn't taught as I claim It is but is innate in a great percentage of what has come to be called the workforce”
Conclusions:
1. People with upper middle class means do not fully grasp the destructive nature of public schooling. They have the means you describe and yet do not employ them properly because they have not been motivated and persuaded.
2. Their yuppie spawn is unlikely to have critical judgment. This is the cause of the effect your original article describes.
uncleJim21
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