Post #1302552 · Elektrine

@teyrnon@sh.itjust.works

2026-03-19 18:23 UTC

The culture was fucked long before no child left behind to be fair. Anti intellectualism was rampant, since before most of us were born, gangster culture and drug prohibition and The Fear made a solid percent of the population criminals and authorized a police state. City schools are better now than they were in the 80s and 90s, things got real bad in the crime waves.

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@logi@lemmy.world 2026-03-19 19:42

Since we're talking sci-fi, this is Asimov in 1980: > There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

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@GaMEChld@lemmy.world 2026-03-19 22:43

Yeah I mean a ~~casual~~ causal chain can be traced back to the big bang. But looking at the entirety of history, you tend to look for certain inflection points. So in my mind, traveling from Present backwards in time, the journey looks like this in my mind: Present :: Idiocracy 1st :: No Child Left Behind 2nd :: Bush elected 3rd :: Clinton Glass Steagle 4th :: Reagan 5th :: Nixon I can zoom in anywhere along that timeline to talk about how each event impacted this topic. Lemme know if you want to explore any of that like for example what did Reagan do to impact education today long after his death.

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