The Real American Schism: Educated People Vs. The Easily Fooled
We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a

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spankerchiefThu Mar 05
 

The true sign of a failure is a lack of curiosity.

 
 
mundhraThu Mar 05
 

i haven't even read it and i'm saying: this.

 
 
mofoThu Mar 05
 

This just in: Europe 100% free of idiots!

 
 
dagwoodThu Mar 05
 
I loved this-
Huge segments of our population, especially those who live in the embrace of the Christian right and the consumer culture, are completely unmoored from reality.

Good read and all too true. I swarmed something about illiteracy acouple months ago but No One Cared to read it. One of the comments (you could get lost in that mess) said the title had changed from America the Illiterate on truthdig. The change is deceiving or confusing or both.
 
 
nocalThu Mar 05
 

IT'S LIKE, THER ARE BLACK PEOPLE, AND THERE ARE NIGGERS

*white people laugh uncomfortably

 
 
mofoThu Mar 05
 

There are over 42 million American adults, ...

Those are some fascinating numbers to not cite a single source for.

 
 
pjp56Thu Mar 05
 

I just riled a Bush worshipping Republican with this piece... and I highly doubt he even read it all ( I posted the first paragraph there) His reply? Verbatim: 'That Mahority description is the best description i've heard of the Obamaites yet!' Fuk! They're SO easy!

 
 
MrHootsThu Mar 05
 

Huge segments of our population, especially those who live in the embrace of the Christian right and the consumer culture, are completely unmoored from reality. They are willing to use force to impose this clarity on others, especially those who do not speak as they speak and think as they think.

While I agree with the article, this isn't just a Christian right-wing problem.

 
 
pjp56Thu Mar 05
 

Hoots, You're correct. (even if they ARE the loudest). The last statement in the article is correct in including Obama's retard campaign rhetoric as the same sort of thing that the pundits, and Republicans spew, but then, politics and religion were almost fused, like The Fly, for the last 8 years.

 
 
DoobThu Mar 05
 

'IT'S LIKE, THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE, AND THERE ARE NIGGERS'

deserved a damned repeat (OH, and a minor correction, heh)

 
 
slexThu Mar 05
 

Old article is old

 
 
MrHootsThu Mar 05
 

pjp56, you're right. And I don't see the two ever changing.

 
 
magicchexThu Mar 05
 

Idiocracy?

 
 
nocalFri Mar 06
 

yeah i would say that the level of discourse in this article is about on par with idiocracy

 
 
nocalFri Mar 06
 

ever see a bird peck at a mirror, and you're like, bird, you don't even know what you're doing

 
 
mofoFri Mar 06
 
I just riled a Bush worshipping Republican 

Blind religious republicans are less numerous than blind republican hating liberals. They are, however, worth about the same.

 
 
nocalFri Mar 06
 

TWO AMERICAS, DUDE.

clearly i live in the smart america. u liek bush?? lol u live in DUMB AMERIKKKa haha faggooot

 
 
nocalFri Mar 06
 

maybe there are three americas, because i think an awful lot of you live in mediocre boring faggot america

 
 
mofoFri Mar 06
 

I think nocal finds himself funnier than most other people do.

 
 
nocalFri Mar 06
 

what do people find you

 
 
nocalFri Mar 06
 

lol jk people don't interact with you in any medium

 
 
PutaMadreFri Mar 06
 

trollcal

 
 
mofoFri Mar 06
 

Noltaire

 
 
tantrumFri Mar 06
 

I think nocal finds himself funnier than most other people do.

linkswarm: most other people are faggots

 
 
SexNinjaFri Mar 06
 

haha, yes.

 
 
vasudevaFri Mar 06
 

Sweet burns broski's.

 
 


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