Our “Elites”: Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
I heard today that beginning in the 1970’s I.Q.’s the world over have been declining at a rapid pace. Demonstrations of this phenomenon are plentiful. As we depart from God’s truth we sink into stupidity.
Addendum to prior comment on declining I.Q.
Situation Update, Feb. 10th – How America ends: Mass mental poisoning triggers tipping point of collapse
https://www.afinalwarning.com/495900.html
Even I [a big-time, and proud of it, Yahoo] know that is Shakespeare.
Your best and brightest ain’t so bright. .
Worse than the rank stupid is their gross dishonesty – far worse.
My son works at a local business and was bantering with the manager (who, according to him, is roughly my age). During the silliness, she said ‘to be, or not to be’, to which my son replied ‘that is the question.’ His coworkers (most roughly his age or younger), asked where that is from. They’d heard it before, but had no clue who said it or wrote it. That goes hand in hand with something my other son experienced in a college literature class. They had the assignment of reviewing a film. Any film. He chose The Third Man. One other student chose The Princess Bride. Every other movie chosen was made within the last dozen years. Most had heard of The Princess Bride but hadn’t seen it. Not a single one (except the professor) had heard of The Third Man (which itself isn’t shocking, had any other movies from the time been chosen). We live in an era that is proudly cutting off the civilizational limb on which we sit.
Andrea Mitchell graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English. Looks like UofP hands out degrees like lollipops.
Dave,
To add onto that, there are many people from the millennial generation and younger who are completely biblically illiterate. I don’t mean that they are unfamiliar with specific quotes or incidents, but entire books of the bible. Talk about the trials of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the conquests of Joshua, etc. and you’ll get blank stares. At most they’ll know a little bit from Genesis, maybe a couple of facts about Moses, and that Jesus was a nice guy who got crucified.
The media certainly contributed to this by systematically removing Christianity from entertainment. (Think hard and try to remember when the last time you saw a biblical reference in a movie was.) But older generations are also complicit.
Her acknowledgment of being wrong was sheer arrogance. She studied too much American Literature. Just amazing.
Rudolph, it is certainly not one particular institution or outlet to blame for where we are. But I think that is the crux; to forget the Judeo-Christian basis of our civilization that is the main goal. The rest are just additional benefits.