In american exceptionalism while we slowly outsourced all our manufacturing, tech, and biopharm jobs to pretty much everyone else, gutted our education system and shived corn syrup down our throats like they were fattening us for market day. Yes maybe they did teach times tables in the third grade
In the 1960s. They also taught how to identify all the trees and plants that grow around us. Now youll be lucky if they can list all 151 original starting pokemon. We have systematically set ourselves up for the massive brain drain we are currently experiencing where anyone worth anything escapes
To another country offering more education and a better salary and even a better education since we got rid of vast swaths of stem scholarships. We are still in the fuck around phase of systematic intellectual atrophy. But we fixin’ ta fin’ out!
The sixties were a looooong ass time ago and we’ve been circling the drain ever since