Steven Nadler How To Fix American Stupidity Analysis

We just don’t care! There are, I believe, four major factors contributing to our disinterest in world relations: the actions of our government, the popular influences of media, our isolated geography, and most important, our apathy.

In “Idiot Nation”, Michel Moore presents a very strong argument about this nation, America. Moore states that American is dealing with a world of idiots. He gives important points of what America has come down to and explains his frustration with the American education system and also political system. Moore discusses undeniable facts about why education in America is failing which also include elected political leaders. In this essay, the author is not only pointing out what is wrong with the nation, but he is also trying to motivate the reader to do something about it to change this nation better.

The two-hour special documentary, Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial, features the Kitzmiller v. Dover School District case in 2004. It captures the turmoil that tore apart the community of Dover, Pennsylvania in one of the latest battles over teaching evolution in public schools. Some members of the community believed that not only Darwinism, but also a so called theory, Intelligent Design, should be taught in their public high school. It was a battle between the two theories. It forced neighbor against neighbor and friend against friend. The community itself was broken half and half on the controversial issue.

Our country isn’t ravaged with war, and our people aren’t living in destitute huts, dying from diseases that they don’t have the medical care to solve. But with this there is also the downside, as Americans we are also very blind to these first world problems and how good we have it here. 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

Isolationism was a major idea in the 20’s; we preferred to stay out of other people’s conflicts. However, at the time, we had the biggest economy of a developed country, and we were too powerful not to get involved. As time went on we started to realize that we couldn’t remain isolated, we must help when we are needed. Sometimes that help came too late, and because of the occasional consequences of our delayed involvement, the United States mindset shifted to believe that everything is our problem. In the modern day we get involved in conflicts that have no effect on us, we stick our nose in places it shouldn’t be, and, sometimes, end up making the situations worse. We created an image for ourselves of the overly-nosy neighbor, and, somewhat rightfully, certain countries hold contempt for the U.S. because of our incessant need to intervene in conflicts that mean nothing to us.

Since World War II, the United States foreign policy has metastasised to a global level. The United States has taken the position as the global police. We have done countless interventions to “better” the good of the world and its people. Yet, it seems we have forgotten about Americans themselves, who have to deal with the enormous costs of these interventions. When a tyrannous dictator takes control of a country in some far flung part of the world, the United States steps in. We use American soldiers and taxpayers dollars to oust the dictator. Then when a vacuum is created we go back and fight the terrorist group which has taken over. This has happened too many times. It shows the weakness of our foreign policy system. The cost of our military, foreign interventions, and aid has gotten out of control for a country with looming debt problems. As of 2015, military spending has taken up fifty four percent of our discretionary spending, coming out to a total of $598.5 billion dollars (Nationalpriorities.org). Additionally, $195 billion is going outside the United States to fund foreign bases and aid (Politico.com). United

America is a nation built upon strong and reasonable foundations, however, with the new American landscape those foundations are crumbling. The America of today is testing itself out and stretching its limbs; however, those limbs have smack everyone in the face and trampled on top of rationality and empathy. This monstrous new America is ill with a disease all too common for countries all too big for their bridges. Ignorance and the lack of communication it brings with it are to blame for the farce America has become. Today people lack the cultural knowledge and scientific know-how to confront the problems of the modern world. We degrade the environment around us— only second to China’s

The driving factors for the exploration were New Mexico having silver and riches as well as religious advantages. Spaniards thought that occupying New Mexico would keep their rivals away because they thought there was a water passage. The impact of Spanish exploration on Native Americans was negative. Many tribes endured violence and raids, so some more aggressive tribes would attack first. The Apache’s would go in and kill Spaniards that were trying to settle and in return, Spaniards would have slave raids.

America Has Not Lost Its Mind Yet Over the years, America has gotten close to losing its mind, but it has not yet. Average citizens have their own “truths,” what they believe to be true but may not actually be true, or someone else’s “truth” varies from their own. Most Americans do not consider logic; they only consider their opinion and what they believe to be true. While these are all factual, America is still one of the best countries to live in and people immigrate here daily to get away from the horrors of their home countries.

I find myself, regardless of how assiduous work became this past year, still hearing the rhetoric of politicians, media circles and celebrities. Wondering how citizens can disrespect the office of president a place once revered as the highest honor. One would think the rhetoric would end, but yet it seemed the disrespect continued long after Trump was elected president of the USA. I heard Denzel Washington remark a news reporter about how important their task is to not only report something first, but accurately and honestly.

On July 21, 1899, Clarence and Grace Hemingway welcome a baby boy named Ernest Miller Hemingway, in a suburb of Chicago, not knowing that their son’s writings would make literary history, even causing him win a Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize. The Hemingway family would often spend time in their cabin in northern Michigan, where the setting of the Nick Adams story The Big Two Hearted River would be set. In high school, Hemingway started writing for his school newspaper, Trapeze and Tabula, usually writing in the sports section. Writing in the sports section of his school newspaper is where he would discover his love for story telling and writing. After high school, Hemingway would continue his writing career, writing for the Kansas City Star.

When problems arise people step up and take responsibility. Like in the quote from Elie Wiesel, human suffering really is everyone’s problem. In war and times of conflict, America has intervened because they believe that it is their problem to try and solve. This is evident through speeches in World War I, propaganda in World War II, letters during Vietnam, biographies concerning the Soviet War in Afghanistan, and speeches from the War on Terror.

“America was conducting business as usual, but others were joining the game.” (Zakaria, 221). All this time we thought we were on top, we were actually slowly becoming less and less of leader and more a bystander as the rest of the world is slowly rising around us. Zakaria shows in that quote that as America has been continuing business like always, and because of this we have failed to realize our standing with the world around us. In the book The Post-American World, Zakaria shows us the challenges that America faces today. I believe the United States is most affected by our ignorance, competition, and worldly participation.

The United States has been a super power for decades, and since America has always involved themselves in other countries' problems. Instead of isolationism, the country has practiced getting involved. Since the Monroe Presidency, America has been named the World's police force. Dispelling anarchists, and stopping coos, the united states portrays itself as the world protector. Since Monroe, some Americans have felt that isolation is the way to go, and most feel that it is our right to offer assistance. Two recent incidents, Operation Desert Storm and The War in Bosnia have allowed the United States to show off it's strength, both on the military and political level. It has also given the chance for America to evaluate it's foreign policy,

Public schools are a place to learn proven facts and some very well—known and accepted theories. These schools have been led this way for a long time and show no signs of changing. Many states around the country have rejected the teaching of creationism in public schools, since the subject is so controversial among teachers and parents. In Ohio, a bill to develop new science content standards was not successfully passed. Many creationists were upset when they discovered that the first drafts of the standards were filled with evolutionary content, without any allowance for alternative explanations of life’s origins. In the uproar, the state board held a special meeting to investigate the process that the writing team and advisory committee used to draft the science standards (Matthews, Answering Genesis). This is why learning the facts about evolution should be taught at school. By doing this, there would be much less confrontation between teachers, students, and parents. If one has the desire to learn about creationism or any other beliefs of how the world came to be, one should learn it at a place outside of school, such as church or at home.