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On 4/27/24 18:38, bitrex wrote:
> On 4/27/2024 12:11 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:
>> On 27/04/2024 11:56 pm, John Larkin wrote:
>>>
>>> https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/26/opinions/opinion-the-cause-of-campus-chaos-zakaria/index.html
>>>
>>> TV, and now cell phones.
>>
>> But that isn't the problem.
>>
>> The real problem is much the same as the change in the American diet 
>> which has made Americans a lot fatter.
>>
>> People who sell food have tweaked it so that the people who buy it buy 
>> more of it - it doesn't matter the the manufacturers that their 
>> customers get fatter and die younger.
>>
>> People who sell opinions make their output more compelling rather than 
>> more informative, because that enlarges their audience.
>>
>> Being able to get stuff published in the New Yorker won't make you all 
>> that rich. Becoming a star on Fox News is much more profitable - 
>> Tucker Carlson is a depressing example.
>>
>> John Larkin's enthusiasm for climate change denial reflects his 
>> willingness to binge on the intellectual equivalent of junk food.
>>
>> We need an intellectual equivalent of Ozempic - critical thinking in a 
>> pill. Academic education is supposed to instill critical thinking, but 
>> it didn't work on John, or Donald Trump.
> 
> 
> Even many US university students tend to be smart enough to notice that 
> the US seems to have endless money to fund foreign conflicts, but always 
> talks austerity when it comes to them and their future (or lack thereof.)
> 
> "Haha you'll never afford a home even with a college degree but here's 
> another $50 billion for Israel and Ukraine, and there'll be another $50 
> billion after that, and after that..."

$50 billion is chump change compared to the US budget