I have low hopes for Generation-Me

[furtech]

I wish there was an "ignorance" ap that prevented me from seeing posts from nitwits. I think it could be popular.

What people know/don't-know continues to boggle me. This is from a post on the fursuit-LJ community:

"... seeing as the US has a trade embargo against Cuba."

"Wow, seriously?"

Someone wanted to know how to ship a costume to Cuba . The scary thing is that the replier above is -not- the shipper who asked the question, but someone else who didn't know about the Cuban-US situation. A third (not)helpful person describes in detail how they ship to Germany and knows this will work shipping to Cuba because they've shipped to Germany twice.

This reminds me of a BBS conversation where a poster stated that the Arab-Israeli conflict was stoopid and they should just sit down and agree not to fight. When it was pointed out that this had been going on for some time, they replied in amazement, "What, like 50 years?!?" Oy.

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[vulpesrex.livejournal.com]

In a country where more people care about how the last episode of "Dancing with the Stars" or "America's Next Superstar" went, but who don't watch network news programs ("The Mainstream Media is Liberal-Biased") or read newspapers - and that last is so bad, many major metropolitan newspapers are shutting their doors - and EVERTHING presented visually is done at the frantic pace calculated to match the attention span of people raised on MTV music videos - well, you shouldn't be surprised.

The way that we teach history is a crime; it wasn't all that great when I was a kid, in the '60's (I graduated from High School in the Bay Area in 1974). If it isn't happening NOW, people are just not interested in it; there is a stunning lack of any intellectual curiosity in the populace today. It was perhaps one of the most glaring faults in our last president, that he just wasn't curious about things...Thankfully he had Staff for that, but too much of that staff had a bias, and were not the least bit bashful about inserting it.

...Just don't ask anyone to find Havana (or Habana) on a map...

[furtech.livejournal.com]

stunning lack of any intellectual curiosity

That pretty much nails it-- good description!

And yes, I'm filthy-tired of all the "Reality" (not) shows and celebrity coverage. Even the news shows are more about showbiz and celebs than just plain old news. They decry the lack of science education, but I'm just as appalled at the lace of current event-awareness.