The combination of Participation Trophy Culture, an Education System That Wants to make everything Easy and Fun rather than teach anything useful, and an aversion to objective criteria in favor of “f-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-l-i-n-g-s” has led to a society where nothing works and nobody cares.
According to Sarah Hoyt:
Lately I’ve been running into a new category “people who can’t do their jobs.” And these aren’t just our manual labor imports, I mean, people who supposedly are trained and certified and either can’t or won’t do their jobs.
I know everyone was very impatient with me last year when I was fixing the house for sale, but honestly, there is a reason I do all the manual labor I can. The reason is the tile wall I paid someone 1500 to fix (it had fallen. Long story) and which fell in the night, the day after he put it up. He’d mixed the adhesive wrong. So he came back and fixed it. It fell again. The third time I got a book (this was before youtube) figured how to do it and did it. This wasn’t an isolated incident. It just keeps happening when someone comes over to fix something. So if I can, I do it.
But there’s more serious cases, like the guy who replaced our brakes but didn’t replace the brake cables. Leading to us losing brake power 15 minutes later. (Thank G-d someone was looking out for us. We lost it a) when Dan was driving. I’d have panicked. Well, he did too, but… he works even panicked. b) we were JUST outside a garage c) we’d been going very slowly.) Or the doctor who convinced himself my 13 year old had an STD and wouldn’t listen to the kid when he insisted he was a virgin. If I hadn’t gone over his head to a urologist, and told the boy to stop taking the antibiotic that was making him ill, my son would probably have died within months. (Of the problem, which was rare, but not unheard of particularly in early teens. As in the urologist identified it on symptoms alone.)
I’ve been given completely wrong instructions by someone selling me a machine or a product. I’ve had ghastly things done to garments or objects taken in for repair because the person who was supposedly an expert on this just couldn’t do it.
And I’ve heard of “programmers” who steal code from sites on line, and cannot actually tell what it does, leading to spaghetti coding that makes no sense. (A friend of mine is a QA person for such code. Two friends, actually. Both have lost a considerable quantity of hair and have dents in their forehead.)
Culture has been dumbed down and has not found a bottom yet. This is why the colleges are overrun with social justice idiots, Bernie Sanders rallies are filled to busting, and nobody cares that the Democrat front-runner committed multiple felonies as Secretary of State.
Lately ?? I’ve been running to this wall for over 40-years. Incompetence, “it’s good enough…” and “who cares…” have been becoming increasingly-pervasive in all sectors; professional, service and retail. And it goes hand-in-hand with mendacity and narcissism.
Close enough for government work.
“people that can’t do their jobs,” always the purpose of affirmative action. all blacks were was the left’s weapon to force it down our throats. business need to start hiring the best person for the job.
It’s all part of the plan.
Ha-ha. Obama can’t do his job. The progressive movement is using the playbook of the early Catholic Church.. Ignorant people are easier to control.
@ tennsne1: Which period of Church history would that be, pray?
@ Sean L – Perhaps when the RCC prevented their bible from being reproduced in any language but Latin, thus keeping their people from seeing what it actually said?
@ Duke of URL: Because letting people who have no contextual understanding of Scripture interpret it for themselves has no negative consequences whatsoever, right? Witch trials only took off in Protestant countries after the KJV, because King James demanded that “suffer not a poisoner to live” be translated to “suffer not a witch to live” because he was obsessed with witches and wanted Biblical justification for going after people he thought were witches.
They are not certified but credentialed. Certified implies merit.
“nobody cares that the Democrat front-runner committed multiple felonies as Secretary” They don’t even care she took $40million from nations that execute gays while secretary.
It wasn’t just the Bible the Church didn’t want people to be reading… It was learning to read that was the issue. Also, the Church lost control of censorship with the printing press.
@ Tnnsne1: If that were the case, the Church would’ve suppressed all non-religious education. The Church actually promoted the first secular universities in Europe, which usually focussed on non-religious Classical works, and gave university students the legal protection of the Church. Additionally, graduates were granted the privilege (and, in many cases, duty) of papal bull to disseminate what they had learned.
The reason why literacy was so low in the Middle Ages wasn’t so much because the Church was actively trying to keep people dumb so much as it was because for most people, learning to read was about as useful as a women’s study degree- it was a time-consuming and expensive undertaking that had zero application to their lives. Medieval literacy rates were highest in the city, where literacy was needed for work; farmers and people in rural villages had no need to learn how to read because it was unnecessary.