Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, the state’s GOP-led Legislature has disbanded a maternal mortality committee, failed to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage and turned down federal grants for child care.
Think of education. Back before the Internet and smartphones took off, education was distributed. The most centralization we had was curriculums per state. TV was the closest thing to the Internet, and because it was all we had, it was a huge money maker. There was lots of quality content on there, including educational stuff like Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, Bill Nye the Science Guy… I could go in for a long time.
Once the Internet took over our lives, TV went to hell, and YouTube and social media took over. These were no longer curated or created with the same goals as the TV shows of the 90s. They are random people seeking attention, sucking in people so well that it pulled everyone down into a kind of sludge of stupidity. Instead of attracting people with dinosaurs, exploration to outer space, imagination, etc. they have Mr. Beast and others with their mouths wide open and spending a million dollars at a grocery store.
These are all English videos, so the barrier to entry for the US is very low compared to the rest of the world. They’re also American culture, so it resonates with Americans more.
Europe also has far better education systems than the US, so that goes a long way in resisting this kind of stuff.
America is self imploding because of its own narcissism, and the Internet is feeding into that and having a snowball effect. There is no regulation of ideas there.
It’s very similar to the dark ages because of someone just makes shit up, like “cure this disease by letting a leech suck some blood out of you” and enough people repeat it without being put in check by a higher authority, then it’s adopted as a common belief.
That’s the other part of this: politics is usually taboo to discuss with people here, at least many polite people think so. It’s a touchy subject, so you’re taught to not being up these things with friends or coworkers, which just creates even more of a vacuum.
Think of education. Back before the Internet and smartphones took off, education was distributed. The most centralization we had was curriculums per state. TV was the closest thing to the Internet, and because it was all we had, it was a huge money maker. There was lots of quality content on there, including educational stuff like Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, Bill Nye the Science Guy… I could go in for a long time.
Once the Internet took over our lives, TV went to hell, and YouTube and social media took over. These were no longer curated or created with the same goals as the TV shows of the 90s. They are random people seeking attention, sucking in people so well that it pulled everyone down into a kind of sludge of stupidity. Instead of attracting people with dinosaurs, exploration to outer space, imagination, etc. they have Mr. Beast and others with their mouths wide open and spending a million dollars at a grocery store.
These are all English videos, so the barrier to entry for the US is very low compared to the rest of the world. They’re also American culture, so it resonates with Americans more.
Europe also has far better education systems than the US, so that goes a long way in resisting this kind of stuff.
America is self imploding because of its own narcissism, and the Internet is feeding into that and having a snowball effect. There is no regulation of ideas there.
It’s very similar to the dark ages because of someone just makes shit up, like “cure this disease by letting a leech suck some blood out of you” and enough people repeat it without being put in check by a higher authority, then it’s adopted as a common belief.
That’s the other part of this: politics is usually taboo to discuss with people here, at least many polite people think so. It’s a touchy subject, so you’re taught to not being up these things with friends or coworkers, which just creates even more of a vacuum.