When a nation has no common core of rational general knowledge it can be, and is, manipulated by despotic sociopaths who are rational & well versed. In the USA as well as most other countries there's no longer (if there once was) a generally accepted rational knowledge base. In the USA it's been replaced by the Kardashians, various other soapies, sports, celebrity gossip and general hedonism. In the Middle East it is the superstition of Islam (common base, but not rational). In sub-Saharan Africa it is a couldn't care, hand-to-mouth existence & low intelligence. And so on...
You would have noticed how everyone who disgraced themselves in these interviews was giggling, like spaced-out kids. Had they just been smoking pot? Were they drunk? A rational & serious person would have been visibly embarrassed, blushed, and possibly burst into tears. An intelligent being would have felt shame at not knowing the simple answers. But no, they giggled & took pride in their stupidity.
I doubt that any of them went home & looked up the answers to those & similar questions, about geography & other topics. In other words, their ignorance was caused by, apart from low intelligence, an apathy about the world around them. There was no curiosity or thirst for knowledge & understanding.
A similar set of videos about street walking retards is by Mark Dice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CdfsCz1oKo
So, why would those in power accept that the ignoramuses, the "useless eaters" (Russell), shown in these videos have a right to exist? When 7.5 billion people are stripping the planet of all resources and ecological fitness, why would such 'vermin' be tolerated by those who have the power to squash us out of existence with little effort? Of course, we would not be allowed to survive, and will be done away with as soon as AI robots can replace our labor.
What a shame that In the internet age, when general knowledge is at our fingertips, ignorance, apathy & stupidity are as rife as ever
