Have people's intellegence levels dropped so bad, that we the tax payers sit idley by and pay for ignorant politicians to tell us how to live, and slowly but surely loose every civil liberty that the constitution gives us?

Sorry about that, Im just bored sitting in a hotel room on sunday watching the news and wondering where as a civilization are we headed, so I joined Mingle. LMAO.... What else is there to do. I just moved to BR, and obviously, I have nothing better to do today, so I guess Im just saying WHAT UP people.

I do nothing typical and far from being average, but hey if you people ever want to chat to cure boredom, im here!

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I think it is true. Look at children's literature. What was written for younger readers a hundred years ago is now considered high school reading.

One of the foremost children writers of my childhood has stopped writing kids books and only writes for adults now because parents started getting pissed off at the fact she wrote about serious topics in her kids books. As if kids are supposed to be protected from having to deal with puberty, with the death of a loved one, from the sad things in life a that happen.

If kids can't read about these things in the safety of a child's book, and parents don't want people expose their children to these things, then how do we expect children to be able to face the death of a grand parent or a parent or a school mate. Because most of the parents that don't want their kids exposed are also not discussing it with the children.

Look at t.v. and movies. The intellectual quality gets lower and lower and lower every decade. It's as if there is an attempt to lower the overall public intellect and awareness so that people are easier to "guide" and "control".

The old theory that people didn't have enough access to information to make knowledgeable decisions on policy so we need our politicians to do it for us doesn't hold water anymore.

So there has to be a way to make people more docile and controllable so they can keep the power in their hands and not in the hands of the general populous.

i didnt go2 bed until Stupid oclock "6.30 this morning,live in the uk"so me myself i am still waking up and am on my 4th cuppa coffee already so good morning 2 ya and welcome

If you're sitting in a hotel room and bored,you could always call an escort service. just a thought. be seeing you

The answer is: yes

what is the reading level of the newspapers?

I think it is somewhere around a 6th grade level...

the attention span of people has been go

It's MUCH easier to control an ignorant populace than an educated one. I've seriously considered doing a documentary on DSHS and how it works -- anyone who has ever been in the system knows that it's set up to keep people IN it. Way easier to control people, too, when they are dependent on you for life.

As for the literature thing, AMEN and OMG YES! I encourage my children to read "above" their level, and we have a reading/homework time on the weekends. No TV. No video games. BOOKS. The ones who can't read yet look at the pictures or I read to them. They all enjoy it.

One of the biggest things I want to do when I teach literature is get high schoolers to THINK. My sophomore English teacher Mr. Brown told us that literature was a GREAT way to bring up topics we otherwise wouldn't be allowed to talk about in school, such as abortion, religion, and politics. We had some AMAZING discussions in that class. Just awesome. And every student went away with SOMETHING new to ponder before the class was complete.

I think it all started going down hill when we started sitting around a tv in silence instead of a campfire talking to each other. Also around the time that we would rather sit inside our house all day and stopped sitting on the front porch talking with our neighbor. They don't even build very many houses with front porches anymore!!!!!

critical thinking skills! now there is something that is a "new" concept,eh???

Knowledge is power..."they say"...maybe it is in some ways...perhaps the knowledge on how to keep the sheeples/masses ignorant is the power!!

My neighbors are mostly stepford douchebags. I even had one call on me for my yard. Guess what? I'm a single mother of five. I have no time, no energy, no money, and no skills to fix my yard. Did the neighbor come over to my house and offer to help show me how to fix it up? Nope. He called Housing on me instead. What a nice neighbor.

mean people suck