Unfortunately, we live in a redneck culture. That’s the most accurate way to describe American culture — REDNECK — as in the glorious lack of sophistication. There’s always been a basic crude and unsophisticated edge to our culture but it seems to have mushroomed and run rampant in the post-9/11 era. During the Bush years, there was an obvious anti-intellectual atmosphere in religion, education and, most notably, government. It continues unabated, fueled by our fears and perpetuated by the advertising and entertainment media, the neoconservatives, and the fundamentalist religious zealots.

Essentially, people aren’t thinking for themselves, they’re not taking responsibility for their own lives. They want to be spoon-fed their thoughts, ideas, and knowledge. The people holding the spoons have their own agendas and it’s to their advantage to feed us disinformation, half-truths, and lies. As long as we remain stupid, they retain their power.

I hope that clears things up. For what it’s worth…

The moral majority is having their way. They remove sex education, remove birth control, and remove any way to reverse “accidents”. So, the dumbest members of society are the most likely to have “accidents”. They are also the least able to raise a child. How do you think all those children are going to turn out?

It’s simple evolution with a morally-defined fitness function that encourages dumb.