By Michael Snyder
March 31, 2016
A note from Pastor Kevin Lea follows this article.
Ten years ago, a major Hollywood film entitled “Idiocracy” was released, and it was an excellent metaphor for what would happen to America over the course of the next decade. In the movie, an “average American” wakes up 500 years in the future only to discover that he is the most intelligent person by far in the “dumbed down” society that he suddenly finds himself in.
Sadly, I truly believe that if people of average intellect from the 1950s and 1960s were transported to 2016, they would likely be considered mental giants compared to the rest of us. We have a country where criminals are being paid $1000 a month not to shoot people, and the highest paid public employee in more than half the states is a football coach.
Hardly anyone takes time to read a book anymore, and yet the average American spends 302 minutes a day watching television. 75 percent of our young adults cannot find Israel on a map of the Middle East, but they sure know how to find smut on the Internet. It may be hard to believe, but there are more than 4 million adult websites on the Internet today, and they get more traffic than Netflix, Amazon and Twitter combined.
What in the world has happened to us? How is it possible that we have become so stupid? According to a brand new report that was recently released, almost 10 percent of our college graduates believe that Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court…
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni publishes occasional reports on what college students know. Nearly 10 percent of the college graduates surveyed thought Judith Sheindlin, TV’s “Judge Judy,” is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Less than 20 percent of the college graduates knew the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation. More than a quarter of the college graduates did not know Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during World War II; one-third did not know he was the president who spearheaded the New Deal.
It can be tempting to laugh at numbers like these until you realize that survey after survey has come up with similar results. Just consider what Newsweek found a few years ago:
When NEWSWEEK recently asked 1,000 U.S. citizens to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn’t name the vice president. Seventy-three percent couldn’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War. Forty-four percent were unable to define the Bill of Rights. And 6 percent couldn’t even circle Independence Day on a calendar.
Even worse were the extremely depressing results of a study conducted a few years ago by Common Core…
– Only 43 percent of all U.S. high school students knew that the Civil War was
To read this article in its entirety, go to: http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=226
Note from Pastor Kevin Lea: The Bible teaches that in the last days there will be a ten-nation world empire ruled by the antichrist and that this empire will enslave all of the inhabitants of the earth. History teaches that it is very difficult to enslave an educated population. Therefore, if we are approaching the “last days”, we should not be surprised if it appears elites in charge of the Department of Education (who are in support of the “new world order” goals) have been implementing policies which have resulted in this dumbing down of America.
These actions, coupled with the natural tendency for people to be entertained rather than to work hard and become educated, have brought us to the brink of intellectual destruction (and ripe for enslavement). The TV and associated technologies to entertain and pamper the fleshly laziness and lusts of our fallen flesh should be seen by God’s people for what they are – traps of the devil to deceive us.
Please don’t let your kids grow up to be lazy dumb fools; and instead, teach them to be discerning and to become hard working and diligent as they live their lives in service to Jesus. If you do, your children will remain spiritually free even if they are living in a new America where corruption and ignorance has destroyed the way of life we have enjoyed for centuries.
This article relates: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2011-06-02/the-danger-of-living-on-bread-and-circuses-alice-schroeder