There is a root of evil that the modern world readily embraces. That is the evil of parents allowing others to bring up their own children. Most parents are allowing our educational system and our media to produce a generation of young people who cannot function in society without someone telling them how to think and what to do. A third of the people in this nation are now functionally illiterate. They cannot discern the truth about anything because they know almost nothing. When you push their talk button they just respond like a mindless chatty Cathy doll. The air heads you see on the Jay Leno show would be funny if they were not the norm.<\/p>\n
So now you know why people go to the polls and vote the way they do and why America is now in great moral and economic decline. All truth in this post-modern generation of illiterates is relative because the truth just escapes them.<\/strong><\/p>\n Anyway, the following article fully describes the whole sorry story about the post-modern illiterate generation<\/p>\n America the Illiterate\u00a0\u00a0 : Information Clearing House – ICH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n November 16, 2008 “Truthdig” — – We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority<\/strong>, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes the majority, exists in a non-reality-based belief system. This America, dependent on skillfully manipulated images for information, has severed itself from the literate, print-based culture. It cannot differentiate between lies and truth. It is informed by simplistic, childish narratives and clich\u00e9s. It is thrown into confusion by ambiguity, nuance and self-reflection. This divide, more than race, class or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, has split the country into radically distinct, unbridgeable and antagonistic entities.<\/p>\n There are over 42 million American adults, 20 percent of whom hold high school diplomas, who cannot read, as well as the 50 million who read at a fourth- or fifth-grade level. Nearly a third of the nation\u2019s population is illiterate or barely literate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The ability to magnify these simple and childish lies, to repeat them and have surrogates repeat them in endless loops of news cycles, gives these lies the aura of an uncontested truth. We are repeatedly fed words or phrases like yes we can, maverick, change, pro-life, hope or war on terror. It feels good not to think. All we have to do is visualize what we want, believe in ourselves and summon those hidden inner resources, whether divine or national, that make the world conform to our desires. Reality is never an impediment to our advancement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n