Thanks for sharing. Nice article :)
Where were you in Europe for such an opinion?
I don't know about the U.S but I'm sure there are many countries where it is worse, just because they have no freedom of speech.
I live in France most of my life and I was convinced it is a intellectually fourth world country looking at the debates--whatever political, philosophic, etc.-- even if philosophy was studied in high school.
I'm not saying there is no smart people, even geniuses, there. I'm just saying that the masses are not able to focus on hard work anymore. Thus, political representative and media pray on them.
A few years ago, I chatted with a global company M&A VP who told me that its main concern was not finding money to buy companies, but finding companies with new ideas.
Maybe the solution is to talk philo with AI--at least in a few years. It has the knowledge and it is not emotional. The heck is how to find the right prompt. But it's up to you to go over you emotional blocages and inclinations.