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Sunday, September 22, 2013

"Idiot Nation" by Michael Moore

"Our challenge...to find a way to make politics as gripping and engaging as sports." 

    Today people are fed up with poltics because they are all crooks and liers. People are used to the way they are and are ignorant for a reason, to get their mind off our nation falling to pieces is to watch sports. It would be impossible to get the public to engage in politics again because that would mean that politics wouldn't be corrupt anymore. 

"Walk into any public school, and the odds are good that you'll find overflowing classrooms, leaking ceilings, and demoralized teachers."

   Government money doesn't give schools enough to rebuild or repair their schools adequately, so after 15-20 years the school falls apart again. Schools up North have no air conditioning in the summer and no heating in the winter, instead they have a air blower that puts out room temperature air. It's only if a school qualifies for a grant that they may receive it with proper paper work.  

"Our problem isn't just that our kids don't know nothin' but that the adults who pay their tuition are no better."

   Most of the subjects adults learn in high school are long gone by the time they have children. Parents can't help their child with trig homework because they have no idea how to do it either. When people go to college and take courses about their profession everything else is forgotten. 

"Yes, I, Michael Moore, am a college dropout."

   The author of this paper is bashing the education system but couldn't even handle it himself. He is really a hypocrite because he calls everyone idiots but doesn't look at himself, a college dropout, and wonder what he is then. He acts so much better than everyone else he is writing about, but really 45% of the population is probably smarter and more successful than him. 

  

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