Anti Intellectualism is Killing America

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MAGONSDAUGHTER

Friday, August 7, 2015 2:17 AM

You never had anything to contribute on the topic anyway, so meh...

SIGNYM

Friday, August 7, 2015 7:58 PM

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"Do you think we make decisions based on some collective thought? You certainly suggest as much with those words." [G]
Aggregate doesn't mean the same thing as collective.- KIKI

Did I say it did?-G

YES, you did.

A fine example of G, not even taking responsibility for the words he posts.

What a weenie!

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

SIGNYM

Saturday, August 8, 2015 2:11 AM

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It's anti-intellectualism to think of a nation of 300 million as a single entity with a single agenda or personality or purpose.

= collective

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Saturday, August 8, 2015 5:28 AM

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Originally posted by G:

So fitting that in a thread about anti-intillectualism Signym uses the word "weenie," Kiki says a word doesn't mean what English language professionals say it does, and Magons feels the need to post a definition of the word "trend."
But don't that stop you guys from fixing the world...

I thought it important to define the word trend as you seemed too stupid to understand that a discussion of them does not mean 'every individual thinks this way' - which is how you have dismissed this entire thread. Because seemingly if it doesn't apply to every single person in the US, it isn't a valid argument. And that was basically the only thing you had to say, and you've said it over and over, which makes you kind of a troll.

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Sunday, August 9, 2015 5:17 PM

Do you see the difference in this:

"Anti immigration sentiment is on the rise in Australia and led by politicans promoting and exploiting culture of fear as a means of winning votes"

and

"All Australians are racists"

or do I need to explain trends to you again?

The problem with you, G, is that you get so goddam defensive whenever I post anything about the US.

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I see so many articles like this that feed the need for non-Americans to feel better about themselves by thinking badly of the ENTIRE US population.

Despite the fact that in my first sentence, I said that this was something affecting Australia and the UK as well. OMG, now I'm generalising about the WHOLE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD. Maybe you would feel better with a few percentages thrown in....

"More than four in 10 Americans continue to believe that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago, a view that has changed little over the past three decades. Half of Americans believe humans evolved, with the majority of these saying God guided the evolutionary process."

I found this quote somewhere. Does breaking it down make it more paletable.

Here is another quote

"Half of British adults do not believe in evolution, with at least 22% preferring the theories of creationism or intelligent design to explain how the world came about, according to a survey.

The poll found that 25% of Britons believe Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is "definitely true", with another quarter saying it is "probably true". Half of the 2,060 people questioned were either strongly opposed to the theory or confused about it."

Doesn't that sound like there are lots of stupid people out there. I think it does. Isnt that interesting

MAGONSDAUGHTER

Sunday, August 9, 2015 7:03 PM

7% believe the moon landing was a hoax. Ho ho ho.

67% of Republicans still believe Obama is a Muslim.

45% of labradors will be obese by the time they are 4.

I am making some of these up....

SIGNYM

Sunday, August 9, 2015 8:52 PM

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Originally posted by G:
Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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It's anti-intellectualism to think of a nation of 300 million as a single entity with a single agenda or personality or purpose.
= collective

= strawberry shortcake

I'll make sure to purposely misunderstand everything you say from now on and put an equals sign in front of it like it means something.

Yeah, G gets so goddamn defensive he can't even apply a dictionary definition.

Son, go re-read the definition of "collective". Look at as many dictionaries as you choose ... in fact, the more, the better. Then come back and demonstrate, using the dictionary definitions, how your statement isn't the same as "collective".

I know you won't, because I know you can't.

And you might want to wonder why you wind up being so defensive over such pointless points, where you argue over things where you are CLEARLY in the wrong. You're just like RAPPY, who argued that (1) Saddam had WMD which he (a) hid (b) shipped to Syria before the invasion. He argued that UN Resolution 1441 authorized use of force in Iraq, despite numerous examples of resolutions which DID authorize the use of force (and look nothing like), and detailed discussions about the fact that UN resolutions supersede (I had to go get a dictionary definition of the word for him) each other.

He argued about GLOBAL WARMING. He argued about the economy being ON FIRE! in early 2008, despite the fact that I was telling him it was going to crash. He argued that reducing tax rates increased Federal revenues (despite decades of data on tax rates and revenues showing otherwise).

RAPPY argues FROM EMOTION. He WANTS certain things to be true. He MORTALLY FEARS other things. (He panics.) He wants and fears things so badly that he .. literally ... can't think straight. The only difference between you and RAPPY are the specifics of what you want and fear. Your belief in America being "good" and "right" makes it impossible for you to imagine that the USA might have ever done anything immoral.

Dial you emotion down several orders of magnitude. I know you feel these things deeply and the strength of your feelings make your opinions seem so true, but isn't arguing from emotion the essence of anti-intellectualism?

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

SIGNYM

Sunday, August 9, 2015 9:42 PM

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single entity with a single agenda or personality or purpose.= collective

You're the one who's arguing with online dictionaries, not me. Sheesh. Take a chill pill for god's sake.

ETA: Ok, yanno what? I'm just poking you to get you wound up, which is way too easy. I'm going to stop now.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

SIGNYM

Sunday, August 9, 2015 10:17 PM

G, poll after poll ... and it doesn't matter which poll, who took it, or when (within the past three decades or so) say that far too many Americans ... too many, for a supposedly developed nation with a universal educational system ... are blithering idiots.

80% believe in an invisible being who rules over the universe
80% believe in angels
Unfortunately, the Harris poll website is down for these

45% believe in ghosts
http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intelligent-des
ign.aspx

73% believe in god-directed evolution, or god-created creatures
http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intelligent-des
ign.aspx

In my many decades of life, I've come to understand that there seems to be an irreducible percent (30-35%) of Americans who believe in the strangest stuff. But if it makes you feel better, almost every nation has its set of beliefs. The question is whether these beliefs can be overturned by evidence, and whether they get in the way of constructive problem-solving.

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

JO753

Monday, August 10, 2015 1:20 AM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM: The question is whether these beliefs can be overturned by evidence, and whether they get in the way of constructive problem-solving.

I'm just sitting here twiddling my thumz waiting for you and all the suppozedly lojik and sientific evidence based problem solving progressivez to join me.

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