Posts Tagged ‘American culture’

Real-life superhero, Phoenix Jones, thwarts attempted murder in Seattle

     Vigilante superheroes have long been a part of American culture because everyone knows that police don’t actually keep us safe, even if it is on a subliminal level. This is the main reason why people love stories about superheroes so much, because they show us real crime fighters that actually don’t disrupt the lives […]

Anti-Intellectualism and the “Dumbing Down” of America

Ray Williams, Psychology TodayWaking Times There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It’s the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility. Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason, says in an article […]

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