The one and only reason parts of the USA are the way they are is due to uneducated, uninformed and misinformed citizens. A good percentage of them are located in the so-called bible belt, which included Texas. For one, they despise "yankees" (people north of the Mason/Dixon Line) but voted for a New York conman/grifter for president in 2016. A good 33% of Americans.
“The average IQ of the world's population, which has consistently risen from the post-war to the end of the 90 s, has been declining over the last twenty years… It seems that the level of intelligence measured by testing is decreasing in the most developed countries. Many can be the causes of this phenomenon.
One could be the impoverishment of language.
Fewer words and fewer conjugated verbs imply less ability to express emotions and fewer possibilities for thinking elaboration.
Studies have shown that violence in both public and private spheres come directly from the inability to describe one's emotions through words. No words to build reasoning, complex thinking is made impossible.
The poorer the language, the more thought disappears.”
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Read the above a couple of times and recall how donald j trump used a very limited vocabulary to beguile millions of America voters. He spoke their language. He told the same lie over and over again until it became the truth. The Washington Post tabulated over 30,000 lies by trump and yet those followers of trump still voted for him.
For example: Phone and mail scam organizations working in South American countries prey on Americans with cons, “too good to be true.” They promise those who lack the mental capacity to recognize a con money and goods providing they send them a small amount of cash to take care of “processing.” I heard of one where the scammer is actually sending a Mercedes Benz car key, telling them that they had won this car and it would be delivered providing they send a “processing” fee from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars. When the car is not delivered as promised, they often ask for more money to overcome an additional processing fee. Afterall: “Wouldn’t you pay a couple of thousand dollars for a new Benz?” Of course, they never get the car and there is no way to recover the money.
These are the people who fall for the scams of politicians like donald j trump. Even after trump lost, these Americans sent him over $2 million for his overturn the vote effort. The money went straight into trumps pocket.
These are the same people who believed if they took over the US Capitol on January 6th 2021 and murdered Democrat members of the House and Senate, they could someone hold another election.
This is the behavior of a human being who is not capable of reasoning or being able to distinguish the truth from the lie. THEY JUST DON’T HAVE THE CAPACITY anymore than I have the ability to lift a 1000 pound weigh off the floor. I can’t do it and probably never will.
This on third of the population are often members of religious organizations who preach against abortion. For some, this is the only litmus test for a politician. If you are “pro-life” they will vote for you even if your policies are not supportive of the living. The unborn are more important than your life, your neighbor’s life or that of their own. Religious zealots are the most difficult to deal with since they are willing, to die for their religion or kill you for yours or lack of religion.
Just look at the string of human trash who have won elections opposing Roe vs Wade (made abortions legal in the USA). I believe if Roe were overturned, Americans would not vote as much for republicans since there is no other virtue then their support of the pro-life agenda. They are not conservative when it comes to government spending, foreign policy or basic human rights.
republicans have become the party of money and greed, ignoring people and need. The recent cold snap and snow storm in Texas is a perfect example. Millions are without power, water and food for more than a week. This is due to years of republicans neglecting basic infrastructure. https://bityl.co/5fNx
Bottom Line;
1. A third of the population of the USA is NOT capable of intelligent discissions.
2. Led by their religious need to meddle in the lives of women they don’t even know, they will continue to support “pro-life” candidates as the peril of their own.
But no one gives a big rats ass what I think...
Vic Vreeland
"My friend Vic thinks he has symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. He’s retired military, but his PTSD symptoms are not from the trauma of war, he says. It’s trauma from enduring the chaotic presidency of Donald Trump.
I’m not surprised. Many friends and acquaintances have complained that Trump caused them to feel added stress, worry and anger over the past four years. Trump shattered norms, danced around the Constitution, failed to lead, and tweeted lies with impunity. It took a toll. Some friends stopped watching the news. Others quit social media to avoid viewing Trump’s daily antics or avoid arguing with trolls who defended him. One said her hair was falling out. Another had anger issues with the TV. I call it Trump traumatic stress disorder.
I also found myself shouting at the TV when Trump appeared. His mouth was moving, so I figured he was lying. I often turned off the TV to avoid him and lower my blood pressure. I stopped engaging with Facebook trolls because maybe one of them lived nearby and owned an AR-15. I grew to hate the color orange. I’m not kidding.
No matter how much we want Trump to go away, we know he won’t. And now we are learning the health damage Trump has done to Americans isn’t limited to his botching the COVID-19 pandemic. In interviews with Salon last year, Dr. Seth Norrholm, a neuroscientist and expert on PTSD, suggested Trump’s bad behavior resembled that of a domestic abuser. As a result, many Americans have symptoms similar to PTSD. While soldiers and others have developed PTSD from specific traumatic events, Trump-induced stress has been ongoing, especially for those who keep up with current events, according to Dr. Norrholm. Consequently, many of us could face long-term mental health issues, including anger and mood disorders.
When I was a kid, my uncle, who fought in World War II, would dive behind the couch when a car backfired. I asked my mom why. She said he was shell-shocked from the war. I don’t pretend to have anything approaching the trauma my uncle and untold millions of service personnel, accident victims, and others have experienced over the decades. But it bothers me how Trump slithered into my psyche.
I thought the stress would end when Joe Biden was elected president. Initially, I was relieved, exuberant. Then I stressed all over again watching reruns of the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection incited by Trump. And again when I watched and read stories of trauma suffered by members of Congress and their staff when they feared for their lives during the insurrection.
The national alert sent Jan. 27 by the Department of Homeland Security worried me too. The warning said domestic terrorists, with grievances “fueled by false narratives,” including the presidential transition, could mobilize to incite or commit more violence.
I similarly stressed over the case of Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who got voted off two House committees last week for spouting outrageous conspiracy theories, and for indicating support for killing prominent Democrats.
The problem is Looney Tunes Greene is not alone. There are numerous conspiracy-mongering Republicans scurrying around Congress. Nearly all House Republicans supported keeping Greene on the committees. Hours after the MAGA mob riot at the Capitol, 147 congressional Republicans voted to mess with Biden’s rightful election based in part on false allegations of widespread election fraud. Fortunately, they failed.
Meanwhile, millions of Republicans, including most members of Congress, continue to back Trump, even as his failed presidency has left behind a massive mess for Biden to clean up. Absent real Republican leadership, the radicals are becoming the party’s voice. That’s not good for Republicans or our stressed-out nation."
The average IQ of the world's population, which has consistently risen from the post-war to the end of the 90 s, has been declining over the last twenty years... It's the flip of the Flynn effect.
It seems that the level of intelligence measured by testing is decreasing in the most developed countries. Many can be the causes of this phenomenon.
One could be the impoverishment of language.
Several studies show the decline in lexical knowledge and the impoverishment of the language: it is not only about reducing the vocabulary used, but also the linguistic subtleties that help to develop and formulate complex thinking.
The gradual disappearance of times (subjunctive, imperfect, shapes of the future, past participant) gives rise to thought almost always in the present, currently limited: unable to projections in time.
Simplification of tutorials, disappearance of capitals and punctuation are examples of ′′ deadly blows ′′ to the accuracy and variety of expression.
Just an example: deleting the word ′′ young girl ′′ (now obsolete) does not only mean abandoning the aesthetics of a word, but also unintentionally promoting the idea that there are no intermediate phases between a child and a woman.
Fewer words and fewer conjugated verbs imply less ability to express emotions and fewer possibilities for thinking elaboration.
Studies have shown that violence in both public and private spheres come directly from the inability to describe one's emotions through words.
No words to build reasoning, complex thinking is made impossible.
The poorer the language, the more thought disappears.
History is rich in examples and many books (Georges Orwell - ′′ 1984 "; Ray Bradbury - ′′ Fahrenheit 451 ′′) have told how all totalitarian regimes have always hindered thought, by reducing the number and of the number meaning of words.
If there are no thoughts, there are no critical thoughts. And there is no speechless thought.
How can one build a hypothetical deductive thought without parole?
How can one look at the future without conjugation with the future?
How can one capture a storm, a succession of elements in time, whether past or future, and their relative duration, without a language that distinguishes what could have been, what was, what is, what is could be, and what will be after what could have happened, really happened?
Dear parents and teachers: let's talk, read and write our children, our students. Teaching and practicing language in its most different forms. Although it seems complicated. Especially if it's complicated.
Because in this effort there is freedom.
Those who affirm the need to simplify spelling, purge the language of one's ′′ flaws ", abolish genres, times, nuances, anything that creates complexity, are the real artisans of impoverishment of the human mind ..
There is no freedom without necessity.
There is no beauty without the thought of beauty
Sources:
Christophe Clavé
Graduated from Sciences-Po Paris, MBA holder, professional coach, Christophe Clavé spent 25 years in business, as HRDC then Executive Director. He was also a Senior Manager of Strategy and Corporate Policies at HEC Paris for 5 years.