clipped from www.smirkingchimp.com US history informs us that there has always been a strong anti-intellectual component in American culture. And it's common for radical conservative movements to get their strongest support from the white, rural, Christian south. What's unusual about the GOP "dumbing of America" campaign is that it has become a national strategy, There are two serious problems with the Republican game plan of celebrating stupidity. It is anti-American because it defiles our treasured myth of the triumphant individual. "Dumb is beautiful" runs counter to the American ethos of self-sufficiency, of taking pride in a culture of individuals that stand on their own two feet, and think for themselves. Ultimately, it replaces the individual with the mob. The other problem with the Republican strategy is that it is counter productive. To survive in an increasingly difficult world, the US must tap the intelligence of all of our citizens. This is the time for Americans to question authority not pay obeisance to it. |
Saturday, October 17, 2009
The Dumbing of America
Sunday, August 02, 2009
'Coalition of the willing' comes to end in Iraq
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Obama: better be good
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Israel knows what is going on
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(Izz el-Deen Aboul Aish, le médecin palestinien, après son transfer dans un
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Phosphorous Bomb Rain Over Northern Gaza
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On the Origin of Species
"the Struggle for Existence amongst all organic beings throughout the world, which inevitably follows from their high geometrical powers of increase, will be treated of. This is the doctrine of Malthus, applied to the whole animal and vegetable kingdoms. As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form.
This fundamental subject of Natural Selection"
"namely, that each species has been independently created - is erroneous. I am fully convinced that species are not immutable"
The first of our six abridged extracts; can't wait for the res
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In the introduction the great naturalist lays out his "mystery of mysteries" - where do new species come from? When on board HMS Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision. clipped from www.guardian.co.uk clipped from www.guardian.co.uk clipped from www.guardian.co.uk In considering the Origin of Species, it is quite conceivable that a naturalist, reflecting on the mutual affinities of organic beings, on their embryological relations, their geographical distribution, geological succession, and other such facts, might come to the conclusion that each species had not been independently created, but had descended, like varieties, from other species clipped from www.guardian.co.uk clipped from www.guardian.co.uk clipped from www.guardian.co.uk Variation under Domestication clipped from www.guardian.co.uk clipped from www.guardian.co.uk clipped from www.guardian.co.uk clipped from www.guardian.co.uk clipped from www.guardian.co.uk |