Not sure the country (USA) can improve

I'm afraid the USA will have to get worse before it gets better. I envision a crossroad where going one way promises improvement, and going the other leads to an authoritative regime taking over relatively peacefully. I don't think that fork in the road is very far ahead of us. I only hope there are more young adults like the question-asking one than the stupid-answers one.
 
What really concerns me is that none of them seemed remotely interested in learning the correct answer? Knowing if their answer was correct, sure but knowing the correct answer, not so much. No shame in not knowing but not wanting to know is truly sad in my opinion :confused:. Don...
 
Mr. Ed said:

Not sure the country (USA) can improve.​

What do you mean improve? What would that look like, give details.
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In my opinion, it would look like this:

Excellent educational system focused on academics
Excellent medical care system with well-funded ongoing research
Divide the USA into two united nations, west and east (let's not do north and south again)
An un-corruptible democratic government, run by the people, focused on protecting people's rights while responding to their concerns
An un-corruptible free market that encourages entrepreneurship
An un-corruptible organization focused on preventing and prosecuting corruption

Like any of that will ever happen, but there it is; what I think it would look like.
 
squatting dog said:
I realize we can never go back, but.....

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To include the above one must assume people, places and things were exactly the same when these events occurred. Would you trade the conveniences of today for the warm fuzzy nostalgia of the past. If you were really honest about how good the past was you must include the political climate at the time, the draft, Viet Nam War, Desert Storm presidential lies, " weapons of mass destruction, The Moral Majority, the gas shortage, mandatory sentencing, war on drugs, the list goes on. hmm, makes you wonder what's so great about the 60s, 70s, & 80s that makes us conveniently overlook the chaos and mayhem that made this great country what it is today? Sarcasm.
 
I am just as interested in what they do know as what they don't know. What is this younger generations interests? What is their focus? What do they feel is important? Understand the vid is a microcosm, but for me it begs the above questions.

Personally, rote learning of date/time events in history is a fail anyway. Unless a person actually lives through an event, it seldom seems worth knowing about. Not saying having knowledge of the events is not important. Too much emphasis is placed on right or wrong concerning date/times.
 
Jay Leno did this bit for years. It was called "Jay Walking". He'd ask what seemed to be easy questions, and so many he interviewed didn't have a clue. It's obvious the gene pool hasn't gotten any better. In the 1960s, they did a survey in the United Nations Plaza, NYC, with all the flags, within feet of the 39 story United Nations building, the question was " have you ever heard of the United Nations?". Over 50%, never heard of it.
 
I googled and see that apparently IQ scores have been going down since the 1970s, but supposedly they find that even within the same families, that the siblings born after 1975 are stupider. What I read says that result means it is environmental, but also happening in lots of countries at the same time. So maybe food or computer use or other stuff going on in the environment around the world. It does seem to me like half the world has an inability to focus their thinking on anything for an extended time period.
 
SeniorBen said:
Most of them are just dumb kids who are only concerned with getting laid and getting high. This is what's really scary:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/QAnon

These morons are getting elected and making laws! Yep, we're screwed! :eek:
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unfortunately these are the ones who will be looking after you in a nursing home...let's hope by then they can tell the difference between aspirin and Heroin...
 
Parents and grandparents can do a lot.

Raise the young to be less materialistic and self absorbed. Encourage them to be interested in ideas rather than in the latest trends in fashion and gadgets such as iphones. Help them to resist advertising and publicity about celebrities. Take them to museums and on wilderness expeditions. Encourage them to take more photos of interesting and beautiful things and less selfies.

Read to them and buy them books.

Start early because by the time they are teens it is already too late to shape their thinking.
 
Warrigal said:
Parents and grandparents can do a lot.

Raise the young to be less materialistic and self absorbed. Encourage them to be interested in ideas rather than in the latest trends in fashion and gadgets such as iphones. Help them to resist advertising and publicity about celebrities. Take them to museums and on wilderness expeditions. Encourage them to take more photos of interesting and beautiful things and less selfies.

Read to them and buy them books.

Start early because by the time they are teens it is already too late to shape their thinking.
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this is a lot of the trouble.. much of the youth of today don't feel they have to memorise ergo learn anything because the answer to any question or problem..( to them) is at the touch of a few keys on a smart phone...
 
hollydolly said:
this is a lot of the trouble.. much of the youth of today don't feel they have to memorise ergo learn anything because the answer to any question or problem..( to them) is at the touch of a few keys on a smart phone...
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But there will be new problems that have yet to be answered. Tomorrow will be different than today and next decade will be a lot different than this one. Life progresses, very true. For better or worse though remains to be revealed. It's not clear to me yet anyways. I choose optimism because I have that choice.
 
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hollydolly said:
Me too... unless it was some luxury nursing home where I can get anything I want
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Maybe someone who's young right now will figure out a way to make nursing homes more palatable when your time comes. Or maybe one of them will figure out something that none of us can even imagine, up to now, that will be a better way of life. We don't still live in caves, after all. Things do sometimes change for the better.
 

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