Grab your Farmville Minicourse here! Question by Master of time and space: Why are so many People today Naive or Stupid?Why are so many Americans Naive or Stupid?
Before answering please recognize that I am asking this as an American. I am one of the more intelligent people at my University and notice many of these odd characteristics that I myself do not replicate. Please, no American bashing or ridiculing. I am opening this question for clear and constructive discussion. Please no yelling at me for saying these things. If you wish to attack the statement do so intelligently. In other words, no stating “your wrong” or “Americans are not stupid” or “your stupid” or other things of that Nature.
I have noticed many people at my University to be quite dim witted. I attend a fairly prestigious University that is very well respected in numerous realms and have noticed the majority of American students seems to have the attention span of a piece of toast and the intellectual curiosity of butter. In short, they are not very interested in learning much of anything and care more about getting the degree with the minimum work necessary. When it comes to projects most of my partners are very lazy and wait until 2 weeks before the deadline to start the project and frequently end up using questionable scholarly sources that they obtained from beyond questionable sources. Not stolen or plagiarized but obtained from wikipedia or similar sources without doing much of any actual reading. I picked up an actual text book and was laughed at by my peers. This is ridiculous.
Another thing I notice is that many seem to use the word “like” alot, in both casual and professional speech, and appear to require the use of a horrendous amount of fillers in speech that lessens their credibility on every occasion and makes it hard to take them seriously. What is the reason this has happened? Most of my friends do not speak in this manner and typically use synonyms or more professional terms to express their thoughts, in both casual and professional speech. Most of my friends are typically the minority population but have accomplished much with regard to their intended careers and are always open to doing interesting or new things. Do the majority of people today not recognize the difference?
My final observation is regarding facebook. Over the past year or two I have noticed a tremendous increase in the amount of time people spend on this “website”. While I would understand if people were to use this website for keeping in contact with friends it seems as though most of them do little of that. Their appears to have been a depersonalization of social relationships, which is very sad to say the least. I have not fallen prey to this and only use Facebook for its intended purpose of keeping a list of peoples birthdays and sending around messages of interesting things i encounter. In other words, real human communication with people I know in real life. Too many people I know use this website for the APP’s such as Farmville, Fishville, Mafia Wars, and other Zynga games which are nothing more than time wasters. While i could understand if people played these occasionally most do not and instead devote an ungodly amount of time to them thus minimizing real human communication and leading to them becoming confined, reclusive, and borderline retarded in the literal definition of stunting their being. Rather than doing something useful or truly fun they spend their time on minimalist time wasters. How does this make sense? Who, given the choice, would honestly prefer to do such menial and useless tasks over and over again. Nothing positive is accomplished and time is wasted. How is this healthy? Why are such websites not subject to the same scrutiny as drugs and alcohol or Gambling. It is clear from my observations that they only lead to stupidity and a lack of awareness. Am I wrong?
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If this is reported by anyone I feel sorry your simple being could not handle some constructive criticism. This is not a violation of anything and I hope all who read this recognize that. I look forward to your responses on the topic.
Some idiot reported this as a Rant the last time i posted it. For Shame. If you report this you are a fool. This is not a rant but an open question. If you do not recognize the difference you are foolish.
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Answer by Hood
Because naivete and stupidity is too big of a problem to be dealt with by any one person?
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