+1I've always thought that people who came up with government conspiracy theories were giving our government way to much credit. Too me it seems they are much to disorganized to actually pull something like this off.
Our access to high-quality information has not, unfortunately, ushered in an age in which disagreements of this sort can easily be solved with a quick Google search. In fact, the Internet has made things worse. Confirmation bias — the tendency to pay more attention to evidence that supports what you already believe — is a well-documented and common human failing. People have been writing about it for centuries. In recent years, though, researchers have found that confirmation bias is not easy to overcome. You can’t just drown it in facts.
Life's too short to try to deal with all that crap.
So true.No conspiracy theorists or anything, they just don't like the evolving US culture for their kids. "It's no longer the country I grew up in" was one quote.
So true.
The country I grew up in had no cure for polio, separated eating, living and schooling according skin color, and faced the very real possibility of global nuclear war.
Those were the good old days...
Early-onset curmudgeonhood strikes again...As noted, the people I quoted have pre-school children, so they're in their late 20's/early 30's.
So true.
The country I grew up in had no cure for polio, separated eating, living and schooling according skin color, and faced the very real possibility of global nuclear war.
Those were the good old days...
As noted, the people I quoted have pre-school children, so they're in their late 20's/early 30's. They don't recall these things.
Quite frankly, DW and I are have been having similar discussions about moving. Not about conspiracies but about the change in culture in the US.
We know of three different couples who, once their kids got of school age left the US (New Zealand, Singapore, Australia) .
No conspiracy theorists or anything, they just don't like the evolving US culture for their kids. "It's no longer the country I grew up in" was one quote.
Early-onset curmudgeonhood strikes again...
They also probably haven't tried raising children elsewhere. They likely will not find it any easier, but they are welcome to try and report back.
. It is easy to overreact to some of the nutty aspects of US culture.
Quite frankly, DW and I are have been having similar discussions about moving. Not about conspiracies but about the change in culture in the US.
We know of three different couples who, once their kids got of school age left the US (New Zealand, Singapore, Australia) .
No conspiracy theorists or anything, they just don't like the evolving US culture for their kids. "It's no longer the country I grew up in" was one quote.
Here in Illinois, it is easy to underreact to the ugly, corrupt, mismanaged and doomed condition of our state. It really is much, much worse than what is portrayed in the media. And the corruption and mismanagement is so pervasive, it's truly part of the established "culture."