Each day I am more and more convinced that our society is heading for disaster. Politically, our so-called leader is selling us out to other countries -- do you know that our government borrowed money from freaking Mexico? -- and turning us into a third-rate power with a first-rate mindset, all of which is a little too reminiscent of North Korea to me, but politics aside, our society devalues science and all it has done for us and what it still can do -- see the Michael J. Fox interview with Katie Couric here -- and among countries of the world, we have one of the lowest rates of people who believe that evolution is real. Seriously. They complain about our children not being academically competetive with other countries, but they think testing of rote learning is the key. Understanding and being able to apply concepts are the key, my friends. I'm just saying.
Then I read this article in Parade magazine this morning. Listen to this: parents in some place in Georgia want to ban all the Harry Potter books, because
Some parents say kids can�t tell fantasy from reality and will try casting spells on classmates.
Uh ... it's not as if the spells are going to work. Who can't tell fantasy from reality here, the kids or the parents? It also says in the article that
Lawyers for the county board, which objects to a ban, say Cinderella and Macbeth will be next.
If you ask me, there are too many stupid people in this country for us to be the first-class world power that we think we are.
