Presidential Debate

[NuurAbSaal]

The sad thing is, people in good ol' Europe aren't a lot different from the "ignorant masses" in America. Super-arrogant as it may sound, a hefty percentage of any population are just, well, "uneducated" (used to avoid the word dumb). Sounds really arrogant, but take a look around your country. Ignorance reigns supreme, apparantly it really is bliss to some :( . This is not meant as a self-glorifiying "I so smart" comment. I assume that we, who post on an internet forum of considerable standards, more or less were all treated to some kind of higher education and live in circumstances that don't inhibit our ability to "learn". We are lucky.

Now, the fact that not everybody has an IQ of 170, knows the history of all countries of the world or speaks fifteen languages wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for politicians of all colors (read: from left to right) exploiting that fact and feeding a large amount of bull**** to the people. I expect this to be much the same in any country and in most forms of government. I do in fact believe that xenophobia or nationalist chauvinism, two things I deeply despise (as will all of you fellow lurkers), could be nigh eradicated from the face of the earth if enough people had the will and, more importantly, the opportunity to educate themselves. This raises of course the question about the availability and integrity of qualified teachers. The answer to this problem: education!. Meh, going in circles...


If the educational system in the United States is really as bad as you say (I heard some pretty scary stories about it, a multiple choice history test which asked about the century WWII took place in, iirc for students aged 15 or 16, hard to believe this could be true) it's really sad that we here in Europe, with our supposedly superior educational system still have such a large amount of ignorance and stupidity.


Sorry, I am in a dark mood today.

Nuur