New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels Low literacy levels among adults in the United States are a major concern, with 54% of adults aged 16–74 years old, or about 130 …
Seriously, there has to be some systematic pollutant that is affecting our behavior to make us compliant. Plenty do, herbicides are endocrine disruptors for instance, but one of the many has to be making us accept being robbed and abused by the rich and state without protest.
That and taxoplasmosis, a parasite that inhibits the fear center between rodents and cats spread by feces, but all mammals can get it and some estimate a third or even half of the population could have it. Rodents with it lose their instinctual fear of cats.
I am not joking, this is some 1984 type shit, past generations would not have accepted all of this.
The boomers are aging and lead poisoned. Education system is spotty. Poor areas have less tax revenue, leading to worse schools, and that creates a cycle.
People are addicted to social media and it’s literally rotting their brains. 15 second video clips with the same background audio playing in a loop.
I think it is a lot of things happening concurrently.
As an avid audio book listener I really thought the rise of podcasts would make americans more literate but it seems like it had an inverse effect.
What’s going on in the US? Is the water poisoned with heavy metals or something? The mental decline is palpable.
How? Podcasts are literally just people talking.
Seriously, there has to be some systematic pollutant that is affecting our behavior to make us compliant. Plenty do, herbicides are endocrine disruptors for instance, but one of the many has to be making us accept being robbed and abused by the rich and state without protest.
That and taxoplasmosis, a parasite that inhibits the fear center between rodents and cats spread by feces, but all mammals can get it and some estimate a third or even half of the population could have it. Rodents with it lose their instinctual fear of cats.
I am not joking, this is some 1984 type shit, past generations would not have accepted all of this.
The boomers are aging and lead poisoned. Education system is spotty. Poor areas have less tax revenue, leading to worse schools, and that creates a cycle.
People are addicted to social media and it’s literally rotting their brains. 15 second video clips with the same background audio playing in a loop.
I think it is a lot of things happening concurrently.