Americans Your Lack Of Education Is The Joke Of The World Gore Vidal

[fatcat2939]

May I recommend one of Gores novels 'Creation'. Great read of ancient political intrigue.

[CaptainBluebear08]

"It's called the American dream because you have to be alseep to believe in it" (George Carlin)

[LaJokanan]

@ LordMalice (Cool name btw) - I see your distinction, but in my opinion, anyone who's content to remain ignorant in an age where knowledge and information is more readily available than at any time in human history is - STUPID. Clearly, almost everyone who WANTS to learn to read is capable of doing so, excepting of course those of us with severe learning difficulties. Being illiterate nowadays is in many, if not most, cases a choice; there are adult learning programs available, after all.

[LordMalice6d9]

"Obama is to intelligent for the Job" hahahaha!!! I laughed at that one! What a senile one man Gore has become.

I for one do not believe that the majority of Americans are really AS stupid as people say. Its just that the stupidest segments of the population of America are usually the loudest and get the most media exposure.

[ChrisCapel1998]

@LordMalice6d9 They're not stupid. They're lazy. There's a difference between being stupid and being uneducated. The mass media doesn't cater the the loudest. They cater to the things the few super-rich who own them, want them to.

The whole system has been backwards, upside down and inside out for so long that most American's just believe what they hear on the news and don't investigate any further. Too much TMZ to watch, I guess.

[WilhelmDrake]

Obama is smart enough to know to do the bidding of his major campaign contributors (ie. Wall St.)

He's also smart enough to know how to sell out his constituency to his campaign contributors.

What good is a constituency if you can't sell them out to the highest bidder?

[Ameer18]

@WilhelmDrake wall street is nothing more then a scape goat fo all u uneducated brainwashed yanks. U want to look to the real source of yall misery then complain to the zionists in israhell who control yo banks and yo government.

[BuddyNovinski]

The idea that the Elect are wealthy and the Damned are poor is a perversion of orthodox Calvinism. It mixes social Darwinism of the late 19th century with an idea that John Calvin never considered. The last president of this persuasion was John Calvin Coolidge.

[JovianAU]

I opened this tab at 0:49 and couldn't figure out how I'd found a video of Bette Midler interviewing Emperor Palpatine...

[Xanous]

Poor old guy. You can tell he's going senile.

[Gioxtream]

Intelligent for the Job? LMAO.

Obama works for the Trilateral commission,The buildenberg group. Basically the banking cartel.That's why we always getting screw up.I wont tell you for who you should vote neither.Do your own research. Personally I will vote for Ron Paul since they taking my right away from us slowly.

Research:

Bill s510.

TSA.

Patriot act Farse.

Research also TIM OSMAN=Bin laden AL-CIA -EDA USA TERRORIST GROUP.

[Hopeful71]

@Gioxtream

"Personally I will vote for Ron Paul since they taking my right away from us slowly"

While RP is one of the few honest politicians, I will cynically take a liar over a honest man who tilts at windmills. RP knows (and writes...endlessly...instead of READING) as much about economic models as a 7th grader. His Libertarian polemics sound good to naive people frustrated with our corrupt system but are as ineffective as they are ignorant. He offers utopian fantasies, not reality.

[Gioxtream]

@Hopeful71 Excuse me! He offers utopian fantasies?

LMAO....Ron Paul predicted what is happening today long ago.Don't believe me...research his videos years back.

Is this utopian fantasies to you?

TO END THE CRIMINAL FEDERAL RESERVE.ABOLISH THE IRS,ABOLISH THE TSA,PATRIOT ACT,Stop POLICING THE WORLD.TO CLOSE 900 military bases around the world Bring those trillions a year home. Go research better.Good luck by the way.And..remember.We all in the same boat.

[7j8i9m]

@Gioxtream Problem is, Ron Paul also wants to do away with the UN and NATO and IRS and FBI. And the eventual goal of libertarianism is a state no different from anarchy. Libertarians assume that once we do away with government, somehow the invisible hand of the markets will sweep us all along. This is factually no different from anarchy, because the people with all the money and guns will rule us all, just like they do curently under capitalism. Ron Paul only looks good if you don't think much.

[rmcdaniel423]

@7j8i9m wrote "This is factually no different from anarchy, because the people with all the money and guns will rule us all, just like they do curently under capitalism."

1st: In anarchy, those that coerce others will be regarded as doing wrong. Currently, coercion is the modus operandi of govt

2nd: We don't currently have true capitalism (ie free markets) We have a mixed economy, with MUCH of the harmful effects being a direct result of mixing business with political clout. Govt is the problem.

[rmcdaniel423]

@7j8i9m 3rd: Anarchy means "no rulers". Take away the tool of govt, which is manipulated and used by the "people with money & guns", and they no longer have the power to "rule us all". They can only do that now under the false legitimacy of the state.

In my opinion, the only problem with Ron Paul is that he is trying to achieve these goals by working within the system and playing by their rules. Any TRUE change for the better will have to originate from outside the current govt.

[SirKickz]

Look, there are lots of places in America that suck. Places that can only be described as the cesspools of modern civilization, where ignorance is a virtue and hatred is celebrated. However, they are not representative of American culture as a whole, and for each pocket of idiocy, there exists places like my home, Eau Claire, where human expression and intelligence flourishes. America is too big a place to say that we are, all of us, of the same character.

[spiritconsumer]

I'm American, and i hate it here. I'm moving to Canada when i can. lol. And here, Obama was called the Anti-christ when he first showed up. I remember how serious my parents were about thinking he was a THE anti-christ. Thankfully, i've relieved myself of the cult.

[zonetoful]

@spiritconsumer Pro Tip: Canadians think self-hating Americans are annoying.

[mittROMNEY666]

@zonetoful wait, so canada isnt the liberal paradise we think it is, or is it that you think someone willing to betray one country will also betray another?

im american and this country fuckin sucks because almost everyone is a fuckin fat moron

[kofydnb]

amazing. I dont get the american higher education system...how can the governement not subsadised tuition fees like the UK? Higher Education is a right not a privilege.

[19NaVi72]

I like Gore, but Joy Behar is a fucking buffoon.

[cremeofthereich]

Brilliant and one of the few liberals capable of dishing out a kick ass even conservatives could love and appreciate. All props to you Gore, longer life!!

[HouseofBurgessesLR]

His own self-admitted greatest achievement is that he "hasn't killed anyone." Perhaps if he were to slip off of the wagon as it were, he would begin with himself. Thankfully, the country is not quite so ignorant as he supposes: he has lived long enough to have been rendered irrelevant.

Hamming to the camera, the "host" and the repartee guffaws of the inane studio workers, his comedy is indeed, cruel as is he.

[IoEstasCedonta]

"Vidal is thought to have written one of the first novels addressing homosexuality"?

Either Gore Vidal is older than Murasaki, or that crawl was clearly written by an American.

[gangster3591]

According to Mr Vidal, Americans are "the worst educated people in the developed world". Nonsense.

Americans are as educated as anyone else, perhaps more than most.

Education should be understood as a synthesis of life experience and learning, not merely formal education represented by degrees and diplomas.

Albert Einstein remarked: "education is everything you learn after you finish school".

In my view Gore Vidal is a negative social influence, and a joke. Always was

[441meatloaf]

@gangster3591

more than most? Gee than I wonder why the entire world see Americans as fat and stupid? Only Americans themselves believe themselves as being not moronic.

[fizzypopism]

@gangster3591 Love how you didn't provide statistics.

[Darusdei]

@gangster3591 strange... last time i checked up with oecd american youth performed below avarage

[pmkaka]

Gore Vidal

we need more of this type of character

to tr & balance & bring some sanity

[scottishchap2008]

most communists are intelligent . evil but smart

[BeholdZeus]

@scottishchap2008 dimwit.

[Totaldoug]

some of the smartest and, at the same time, dumbest people I've ever met were Americans. There's a myopia that limits that country's potential immensely, Sarah Palin being supported by millions of Americans is an international joke. Just shockingly dumb but nobody seems to care - what's with that?

[revdire2]

@Totaldoug Most Americans never really learn how to think critically. It's not part of out public curriculum. If one does stumble upon this tool set, one is often labeled a "Nerd" and then given less access to the sexual sweepstakes of youth. In effect, being openly intelligent in America often leads to more problems than most people can or want to handle. So, they click off their mind's light and go-along-to-get-along/ahead. I believe this is by design. I can not see how it isn't.

[kmanfitz]

Of the top 200 universities in the world, 70 are in the United States. 40.3% of people in the US have college degrees. That's the sixth highest percentage in the world. More than Finland, Australia, Ireland, Denmark, AND the United Kingdom.

[FFS1NICO]

@kmanfitz and all of those people are stupid. you know why? because if you make an engineer degree even on MIT, engineering is the ONLY thing you know about. Americans have the best experts in the world in various branches of knowledge, but in USA an expert on theoretical physics can still believe in so called "creationism", be a religious fanatic, and have no idea what's the capital of his own state.

[kmanfitz]

@FFS1NICO I'm an atheist. So is everyone I know. And I live in the deep south. Stop buying into stupid stereotypes.

[FFS1NICO]

@kmanfitz i don't care if you are an atheist. i was just setting an example of lack of common knowledge. and those stereotypes has to have some source don't they?

[kmanfitz]

@FFS1NICO You obviously don't know what you're talking about. Also, your comments about MIT are wrong. Like nearly every other university in the United States, students are required to complete coursework in "math, science, technology, humanities, arts, and social sciences" in addition to their major specialty. MIT is one of the best schools in the entire world, and only the brightest of the bright are accepted and graduate.

[FFS1NICO]

@kmanfitz ok i overreacted with MIT, but i keep my point: the main problem in USA is lack of common knowledge, witch leads other people to be overreligious (not allways, but often) and labled therefore as "stupid". i am not saying of course that EVERY yank is stupid. we are talking about general terms, like for example; every Italian is lazy (and god knows they are).

[SiliconBong]

You forgot New Zealand.

We have some of the most well educated taxi drivers in the world :P

kmanfitz

[ManofManyPasswords]

People need to realize that it's not the fault of the EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, it's a CULTURAL thing. In other countries, children are taught that if they don't get an education and go to college they'll be failures. In the states they don't teach their children to have ambition really.

[bspicer2]

"yessss..... of course i do...."

[carneycam17]

OH SHIT IT IS DARTH SIDIOUS!

WHERE IS VADER? HE CAN'T BE FAR!

[Petrivolve]

@carneycam17 I see what you were talking about. Also, this seeing each other on the Youtubes is hilarious.

[carneycam17]

@Petrivolve right?

[Petrivolve]

@carneycam17 I was saving that bacon.

[Bernstein1917]

I wish I could say that Vidal's comments weren't true, I wish I could shout at him and call him a liar, but I just can't, because it's true.

[canadianroot]

Look up the meaning of pompous ass and you'll see a picture of Buckley.

[timrice666]

I'm asking this question all over the net. I'm "white" if I grew my hair it would be straight and brown. Barack Obama, Jackie Chan, Imran Khan. Which one of us is made in the image of god?

[lashlashlashlashlash]

@timrice666 whaaat? Explain

[mohammad5]

Go Canada, America fails.

[sushifool]

William F B looked like he was coked out of his gourd most of the time.

[infinityjrh]

Gore Vidal is the MAN. There is no debate on this.

[911truthseekers]

In America Education is Brainwashing.... especially in History and Chemistry and Science and Law! You must understand who owns the Publishing Companies, the Media, Hollywood and the Music Industry! I.E.... NLP and Free Energy and Wallstreet!

[PankrationGod]

That was a joke.....

[F1REbomb]

He still identifies people into Catholics and Protestant. He is a senile, paranoid old man.

[diman75]

And how would you identify people? Smart and brilliant young man.

[F1REbomb]

Um...us normal people tend to identify people by their personality or character. Have fun picking your friends by what church they go to. Idiot

[infinityjrh]

FUCK OFF... you don't deserve to lick his ass.

[fwjohnson02]

Thanks again to Gore Vidal for telling the truth

[redryan20000]

@fwjohnson02 we all knew it before he said anything...

[MendingMedia]

Americans want thier President stupid and hated.

Someone they can relate to.

[berny88925]

@MendingMedia Trust me most of America does not want that. It's just the ones that watch Fox news and actually believe it that want that. Most people want someone like Ron Paul. Americans were set up and brought yp to be stupid by the media and its system, but the ones that are waking up are probably smarter than people who have always gotten the truth

[Ameer18]

if ur from europe i wouldn't talk about hated.

[infinityjrh]

Gore is right, screw the American unintelligencia!

[911truthseekers]

Gore Covers up the Truth for his own Ends!

[infinityjrh]

shut up, stupid

[911truthseekers]

I mean Al Gore!

[911truthseekers]

Al Gore is for his own Ends! This guy is right on and some things, but I dont know much about him.

[Thorinair21]

@infinityjrh

Not all Americans are uneducated. It is the only the opinion of some one truly uneducated and ignorant to say they all are.