It is difficult to comprehend how a kid this old could be this stupid. He seems to feel (he’s not “thinking”) that the hunter-gatherer lifestyle he fantasizes is represented today in sub-Saharan Africa still exists and is more peaceful than modernity. It’s as though he went to the local Museum of Natural History and imagined the modeled still life was current reality. Which, given our unionized K-12 results, wouldn’t surprise.
... to say nothing about his unconscious underlying assumption that Africans are living not in major cities and countries with running water, but – still – a neolithic hunter-gatherer lifestyle, which would require them not to have progressed materially or intellectually in tens or hundreds of millennia. The latter may or may not be true; it’s certainly true that sub-Saharan Africans were living in the Stone Age when Europeans showed up to explore Africa, and when Muslims showed up to enslave them.
But - as a friend who knows, notes: Africa has been a playground for mercenaries since decolonization. There has been little peaceful about Africa since the Europeans left. Tens or hundreds of novels, non-fiction books, dozens of movies, to say nothing of life on the ground, have documented the near-constant mercenary warfare across sub-Saharan Africa over the past three-quarters-of-a-century. If you’ve ever been to a talk by Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, you’re also aware that wherever Europeans went, law, order and roads followed and that all countries that were colonized are better-off today than countries that were not. One must be a vastly ignorant, spoiled, uneducated, and illiterate to believe otherwise today.
As to sub-Saharan Africans themselves, well, the luckiest on the planet are those who are descended from North American slaves; slaves to South America – about 90% of all slaves transported to the New World – were worked to-death far more often (which is why the percentage disparity) and their descendants live in much less prosperity and modernity.
Sub-Saharan Africans still living in sub-Saharan Africa? Well… we can look at Zimbabwe and South Africa to see how that’s working out for far too many of them… For African-Americans, on the other hand… education, modernity, literacy, are theirs for the taking. While observing that many refuse to take their opportunities is one thing, but to fantasize that hunter-gatherers – illiterate and pre-modern misogynist slaveholders pretty much by definition (and by all known history) – are either more peaceful or better off than people living in a democratic republic under the rule of law, with clean running water, electricity, refrigeration, mechanized transport, electronic communications… and on and on… can only be the result of studied stupidity.
Once one could note that this was just “ignorance.” But, given the internet and all man’s known history at one’s fingertips, no difference exists between intentional ignorance and deep stupidity.
To reach the age of this idiot kid and not grasp basic historical facts is amazing. Or it would be if we ignored two important facts:
The lowest-SAT score (i.e. dumbest) academic cohort in any college is that which pursues Ed School.
The second-lowest (second-dumbest) is that which enters Journo school.
So we have decided to have idiots educate future voters, and morons to keep the franchise current on world affairs.
If you have ever wondered how a modern society could become so ignorant as to believe that communism or socialism can possibly provide liberty or prosperity, that anyone can believe the global warming/cooling/climate hoax, or to allow charlatans like Bill Gates or foist ‘vaccines’ onto the global population or to dim the sun with idiotic experiments affecting all mankind, or that we worship parasites on the culture and the species by celebrating LGBTQ+, or how we elect such absolute dolts to congress and state and local office… well, here’s your answer.
We can yammer all we want about the state of the nation. But until we put an IQ/SAT floor on graduate schools in education and journalism, nothing will change for the better because nothing can.
And we will continue to produce voters as stupid as this kid.
I'd think this was one of those "man on the street" episodes on late night TV, where they edit all the intelligent answers and just keep the dummies and busty women (if they're dummies too). If this is a real interview on a college campus (the people passing by seem a little old for high school) then I hope his major is collecting welfare, because he'll be useless for anything else.
Even if he were not an imbecile, how would he survive in a hunter/gatherer society? Some of those societies believed crazy people were special and made them shamans - maybe he could be the tribal witchdoctor. That pretty well aligns with what most liberal/progressive/communists are good for anyway...