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Two books you might want to check out are The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols and "The Tyranny of Merit" by Michael Sandel. Here is a link to his TED profile and talks. Both talk about why this is happening and how we got here. While somewhat depressing, I found both books very validating(? can't put a word to it) of all the frustration with family/friends these last years. Education has been gutted and imho real history is no longer taught. Add the internet and social media to the culture and suddenly everyone is an expert. In less than a year, he has destroyed the integrity, reputation and effectiveness of every federal agency made to keep us safe and let us sleep at night. The UN has been effectively neutralized by our vote on the security council. It's maddening beyond words and I'm scared shitless of what's to come.
I will try and check those out, thanks for the reading list =D
But uh... yeah.
I had a terrifying 'validation' moment when I realized that +/- 1 year of when I graduated Uni...
That was the peak of average US literacy and math abilities.
I have always gotten a lot of shit for describing myself as usually the most intelligent person I know personally, in the real, in most social situations I am in...
And well now the chances of me personally running into someone on my level who is younger than me are approaching zero.
Most people I meet, even doctors, other kinds of professionals... they do not believe me when I tell them I have two degrees and used to work for MSFT, a Fortune 500 logistics company, that I independently taught myself how to code in multiple programming languages and SQL, unrelated to my degrees, that I have enough knowledge to build a video game from "scratch" (yay Godot!), because I have also been making video game mods for two decades...
They just think I am literally crazy and making it up, because I don't look or talk like a corpo type.
Yep, I just love it here.