Ahhhh ENlIghtment....so sweet!

So triggered right now! I'm reporting this micro aggression right away!

Tumblr: the movie

*checks his ammo stash*

Im good.

On a side note but in the same vein, my department at work had a new guy about 3 months back join us. This guy could not read a clock. Im being serious, he would ask what the time was every so often and we would look at the clock on the wall and tell him. As the days went on it was getting weird. On day three he asked, and i pointed to the clock and mentioned the timepiece was right there, and he just said "I really dont know how to read that"...

Mind blown....

Anyway, as his last two weeks fleshed itself out, and all the other oddities i wont go into detail panned out and until today, it hit me on why the whole time we worked with him, and as weird as he was, to me it felt like i had seen this somewhere before, and today it finally clicked into place...

Have you seen that mostly forgettable but ok movie called "idiocracy"?

If you have, this guy was one of them to a tee. And they are reproducing.

I think im going to check my ammo stashes again...

I know a few people who don't know how to read an analogue clock. With the advent and spread of digital watches in the 80's and 90's, it just became something that wasn't so important for people to learn. Just like cursive writing - it's lost it's relevance.
To me, the most striking thing about that story is that he never either got his own watch, or just went ahead and learned how to tell time. If it's important to you to know what time it is, do something about it. Relying on others to do it for you every time is just kind of lazy.

As for "Idiocracy", I did see it. It was a pretty "bleh" movie (as is everything with Luke Wilson), but it did highlight the old truism that "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals."

I'm one of those people that has trouble reading an analogue clock. The more I look at it and concentrate on it, the less I understand what I'm seeing - my best bet for knowing what I'm looking at is a quick glance and then guessing. I don't know why - it's just one of those things, like my persistent inability to say the words "left" and "right" for the correct directions - which is pretty much a pain in the ass when I'm the navigator in a car. I know what direction someone should go in, I could GESTURE the correct direction, but the word that comes out of my mouth is likely to be wrong more than half the time.

And no, I'm not what would generally be called "stupid". I just have a very, very odd sort of "blind spot".

Oddly enough, I have the same issue with "left" and "right". I know which is which, of course, but I have to think about it. Whenever someone asks, I have to think about which hand I draw with and mentally tie that with "right".
I wonder if that's a left-brain vs right-brain sort of thing.

That problem of not beeing able to read an analoge clock is a very common problem this days, which is , like you have already mentioned it above, rather dued to the fact that we are USED to DIGITAL cocks.

It's actually the same kind of modern phenomeon like that many of the children and teenager (and also more and more mature people...) have problems to handwrite and/or with a proper grammar dued to the modern technology.


Also do we all know that the internet is not one but THE media where everybody feels safe and cozy surrounded by the anonymity and can get a voice, not matter how destructive or plainly dumb it is. :p

In my case, even having an analogue watch for five or so years as an adult did *not* improve my ability to read analogue clocks.

I've never had amazing handwriting, but all things considered I am the person who people come to when they need proofreading and grammar checking for documents at the office.

Modern technology can only be blamed for so much... I'm sure I could improve my handwriting if I really wanted to (potentially at the cost of my drawing hand; potentially at the cost of my ability to touch-type) but certainly the social pressures are different, and some people are more likely to stick to circles where their (handwriting / ability to read clocks / grammar / etc) are not criticised - where they feel comfortable with their current skill level at whatever skill we're talking about - instead of pushing themselves or letting other people shame them into changing.

US town rejects solar panels amid fears they 'suck up all the energy from the sun', started by a retired school science teacher.

This was rather horrifying. It makes one wonder just how our education system will continue to dumb down the population. Hopefully we will still have free thinkers coming out of the wood works for generations to come.

I think that as inevitable as stupidity is, there will always be those who question the herd and think thing out for themselves.

Oh yes I do agree, let's just hope they don't dwindle down to nothing. I've long since started calling people "sheeples" at my place of work. It's rather interesting and down right fascinating how some of these people function.

People set their own priorities. In many cases, these don't go beyond the immediate needs. Phone, Friends and Food. Anything that makes them think about something uncomfortable just distracts from the immediate pleasure of their distractions.