I love this post, Alene. "Democracy and justice are not spectator sports. Drilled into your head that you’re the greatest country in the world without evidence, and not being encouraged to read, travel outside of this country, learn other languages, or critically think is really catching up with us now.." So very true. Our population is dumbed down to the max. Critical thinking? There is none.
When I was in China, I was so impressed by the everyday people's drive to succeed and go to the university. Young Chinese citizens and I would talk (in my very broken Mandarin, and their good English) about how if they were lucky, they'd go to the university. Not one person expressed that they felt entitled to an education or good grades. These individuals were working hard to learn so much.
MAGAs don't think critically. In fact, neither do most Americans.We as Americans need to be involved in politics, for our very lives depend on it.
Seems that there are a lot of Americans feel entitled to various things- being able to avoid responsibility for their duties of being a citizen, to relative wealth and luxury compared to the rest of the world, to be able to complain loudly about their government without fear (at least until now) even though their government makes it possible for them to have education, public services, transportation, safety, etc. Isolated on this continent from the rest of the world, they never bother to travel and experience other cultures and see how things are done differently, yet people still live their lives, often much higher quality lives than we do here. There is more to life than being a corporate slave and having all the things.
I love this post, Alene. "Democracy and justice are not spectator sports. Drilled into your head that you’re the greatest country in the world without evidence, and not being encouraged to read, travel outside of this country, learn other languages, or critically think is really catching up with us now.." So very true. Our population is dumbed down to the max. Critical thinking? There is none.
When I was in China, I was so impressed by the everyday people's drive to succeed and go to the university. Young Chinese citizens and I would talk (in my very broken Mandarin, and their good English) about how if they were lucky, they'd go to the university. Not one person expressed that they felt entitled to an education or good grades. These individuals were working hard to learn so much.
MAGAs don't think critically. In fact, neither do most Americans.We as Americans need to be involved in politics, for our very lives depend on it.
Seems that there are a lot of Americans feel entitled to various things- being able to avoid responsibility for their duties of being a citizen, to relative wealth and luxury compared to the rest of the world, to be able to complain loudly about their government without fear (at least until now) even though their government makes it possible for them to have education, public services, transportation, safety, etc. Isolated on this continent from the rest of the world, they never bother to travel and experience other cultures and see how things are done differently, yet people still live their lives, often much higher quality lives than we do here. There is more to life than being a corporate slave and having all the things.
Amen. I don't miss those corporate slave days.