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I read an article that made soo much sense to me. They didnt specifically correlate this with our country's crappy economy, but back in the 80's when jock culture ran rampant ie movies like animal house, it really discredited being schooling, being smart, science etc..from that point on American science has been lagging versus our competitors and it was no longer cool to be into science. Domestic development and innovation obviously play a part in our economy however we are behind other countries.
My take is that while the government does screw up the economy to some extent, the culture we develop and allow also plays a part in it. This combined with capitalism equal a society tht doesnt develop leaders and innovators like it should.
Instead today's youth has rap artist and plastic materialistic girls to look up to....quite sad actually |