The New York Times published a review of a new book called "The Age of American Unreason," by Susan Jacoby. She decided to write the book on 9/11 back in 2001 when she overheard a conversation comparing the attacks to Pearl Harbor. "What's Pearl Harbor?" asked one of the guys. The other explained that it was "when the Vietnamese dropped bombs in a harbor, and it started the Vietnam War." Yep, overhearing that conversation could drive any informed citizen downright mad.
What is the deal with the anti-intellectual trend in the States? There's hope though. Check out the video below to hear a young guy who has informed opinions and expresses them well. He even looks cool.
3 comments:
Do you know who was conducting the interview? He was tough. I don't think I could have done as well!
Don't know who was interviewing. He was aggressive, but how great that he kept pushing and got such a fantastic response from this guy. I know I couldn't have done that well. Pretty impressive.
It's really impressive how this guy handled the interviewer. Almost makes me think he knew he was going to be ridden hard. But he didn't seem to know which questions were coming, so maybe he's just a really calm and collected, very young and very smart guy.
I have to say I don't mind an asshole interviewer as long as he isn't totally full-of-shit questions. They ought to get this guy to run the debates. Then maybe they would get to the BEEF!
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