RadioBanter - View Single Post - SPECIAL: Constitution intentionally vague

dave · September 17th 10, 03:16 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

wrote:

And how, may we ask is it "that 210 years ago people were generally a
lot smarter than they are now" ? I was always told that most people
(worldwide) were mostly illiterate until very recently. And how can we
sample a spoken recording of such a time???

In the 18th century Americans were more rational and focused than they
are today. Their vocabularies were much bigger and they could follow an
argument to a logical conclusion.

TV, the internet, etc., may fill up our heads with more facts, etc., but
they have done nothing but made us functionally way dumber. I like to
think of the mass media as a voluntary electronic lobotomy.

Read "the Age of Reason" by Thomas Paine (the atheist who invented the
USA). It is one of the most beautiful things ever written. Nothing
today compares.