Diary of Anne Frank

Saturday, May 17, 2025 - Torah Day in Levant

So sick, so sickened of Americans "eating the Kremlin onion", so sick of this never-ending bullshit. The "winning of debate" by antics and aggression. So fucking sickening.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTnQMCOhZFM

Do you ever get that feeling that the USA isn't just getting dumber it's actually working on it like it's a group project and everyone's bringing Cheetos but no one brought a damn pen. We're not just slipping into stupidity like it's a hot tub we're cannonballing into it. We're throwing parades for it. We're giving it TV deals endorsement contracts and a podcast where it talks about its healing journey.

And it's not your imagination our society really is getting dumber and not the good kind of dumb or the fun kind of dumb like laughing at videos of cats slapboxing the bad kind the kind where we seem to be daring each other to trip over the same rock 5,000 times and then sue the rock for emotional damages and just for the record I think we're all guilty of this to some degree and if you even hint that maybe thinking is good you're immediately labeled an elitist like you just walked into a bowling alley wearing a monocle quoting Kirkagard all right.

So Isaac Asimov the famous author and biochemist who by the way was smart enough to predict this dumpster fire decades ago nailed it when he said the following: anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your...

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America used to at least pretend to value intelligence scientists were admired writers were respected because people actually read books and the guy who invented sliced bread was a national hero.

And now if you use words with more than three syllables somebody accuses you of word salad. You know we used to aspire upward and now we aspire sideways toward whoever talks the loudest and fastest while knowing the least and don't kid yourself this isn't some natural entropy of society it's a conscious choice we like stupid it's just easier it doesn't make you feel bad about scrolling through 19 hours of YouTube videos titled "Watch this dog say bro."

And look I get it i waste time on some of this stuff too especially when it comes to cats and dogs but I digress and meanwhile critical thinking you know the thing that separates us from barn animals uh no offense to barn animals he gets treated like a personal attack and God forbid you ask a question that doesn't fit neatly on a bumper sticker and next thing you know you're called a hater or worse negative vibes because toxic positivity is also part of this problem