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Kaitlyn HealThis source is very interesting because the Washington Post is an acclaimed newspaper and they had this article published which obviously means that the post literate era is important and is in the public eye
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First and foremost among the vectors of the new anti-intellectualism is video. The decline of book, newspaper and magazine reading is by now an old story. The drop-off is most pronounced among the young, but it continues to accelerate and afflict Americans of all ages and education levels.
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Reading has declined not only among the poorly educated, according to a report last year by the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1982, 82 percent of college graduates read novels or poems for pleasure; two decades later, only 67 percent did. And more than 40 percent of Americans under 44 did not read a single book -- fiction or nonfiction -- over the course of a year. The proportion of 17-year-olds who read nothing (unless required to do so for school) more than doubled between 1984 and 2004. This time period, of course, encompasses the rise of personal computers, Web surfing and video games.
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"The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself." Ralph Waldo Emerson offered that observation in 1837, but his words echo with painful prescience in today's very different United States. Americans are in serious intellectual trouble -- in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.
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pjana1americans are dumb and anti-intellectual, worse they are proud of it. What would Kant's response to this article be?
hofstader anti-intellectualism share_students enlightenment Kant
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ben wellsThis looks like a good and and thought-provoking read.
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infora dimeCall Me a Snob, but Really, We're a Nation of Dunces
It is almost impossible to talk about the manner in which public
ignorance contributes to grave national problems without being labeled
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