The world constantly looks at the United States and asks one question: "How did they get so dumb?"
But the truth is much darker.
Americans aren't naturally stupid - their system was meticulously engineered over 200 years to destroy critical thinking.
Today, we’re looking at the "engineered ignorance" of the American public.
From importing a 19th-century Prussian military school model specifically to mass-produce obedient factory workers, to the 1950s Red Scare that literally labeled "critical thinking" as Communist propaganda. (lol) And the wildest part? America is actively exporting this hyper-narcissistic, tribal dysfunction - from the prosperity gospel to toxic internet culture wars - straight to the rest of the world.
If you thought failing test scores were the only issue, you haven’t met their media machine.
We have officially updated our articles of impeachment to reflect Trump’s treasonous war against the United States and its people.
Trump is committing treason—and commanding U.S. military forces to commit treason—by mobilizing U.S. troops against civilians throughout the United States, in an effort to instill fear in the civilian population, quell lawful political dissent, politicize our military, and usurp local and state authority.
Through his acts, he has “levied War against [the United States],” qualifying his acts as treason as defined by Article III, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution. The Impeachment Clause, Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, makes clear that a president “shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
We can’t allow Trump and his allies to continue their assault on our democracy and our Constitution.
Leonardo da Vinci was a heretic, or at the very least he did not hold the Catholic Church, its dogma and its leaders in very high regard.
His disapproval of the Church is cleverly and meticulously disguised in what is arguably his greatest painting, The Last Supper. This is the premise of The Secret Supper (New York: Simon & Shuster, 2006. 329 pp.), a novel by Javier Sierra set in Renaissance Milan, with Leonardo himself as the central figure. Originally published in Spain, the novel was a best seller throughout the Spanish-speaking world. Of late, it is almost impossible to mention Leonardo Da Vinci and not conjure up images of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code. One is naturally led to wonder if Sierra is not trying to cash in by jumping on the Da Vinci bandwagon. As Sierra recounts it, he began to research his book before Brown’s The Da Vinci Code was published. The Secret Supper stands on its own, its similarities to Brown’s blockbuster merely cursory and altogether coincidental. In fact, the only significant common element is the way in which the two books overtly challenge some of Christianity’s long-held beliefs – assertions that easily got a person excommunicated, if not worse, in another era, but which today put Church groups on the defensive. So far, there appears to have been no reaction to Sierra’s book from those quarters, but it may be just a matter of time.