We see that it begins in high schools, where high school students are being told not to spend any time actually researching anything anymore, and where, indeed, factual content and particularly historical content is declining in value.
This is what Google has done. Now in this new E-Z Lazy Age of electronic media, if you can’t assimilate information that way, then the information isn’t any good...
The other scourge of the internet is the fake encyclopedia called Wikipedia, which has supplanted Encyclopedia Britannica.
Wikipedia is another fake news source that is also heavily censored, adulterated and bowdlerized to keep politically incorrect information out of the mainstream of the Internet. It should also be viewed with suspicion.
The Internet has augmented the great dumbing down of America, particularly within the younger generation.
What agendas has it served? What’s the consequence of this dumbing down?
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* AL MARTIN is an independent economic-political analyst with 25 years of experience as a trader on NYMEX, CME, CBOT and CFTC. As a former contributor to the Presidential Council of Economic Advisors, Al Martin is considered to be a source of independent analysis for financially sophisticated and market savvy investors.
After working as a broker on Wall Street, Al Martin was involved in the so-called "Iran Contra" Affair as a fundraiser for the Bush Cabal from the covert side of government aka the US Shadow Government.
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