Renaud’s piece of net

Let me apologize in advance to the 99% of my American acquaintances who are on the higher side of their country’s IQ bell curve, because it is shown in very bad light here:

Ok, I suppose we could craft the same kind of demonstration in carefully selected French/European/Western neighborhoods, pick the most moronic answers, and come up with something really appalling too.

But still, many of the dumbest and most frightening answers in this video come from seemingly normal people, possibly with a good social situation. They don’t look like outcasts or high school drop-outs from violent neighborhoods.

I hate to say it but I have a hard time picturing those same answers being made from similar people in most other developed countries. I would love to see a video that proves me wrong, though : maybe it’s just that Americans leave less people indifferent, and there’s somehow a higher urge to make such a video that makes fun of them, rather than.. I don’t know, Poles or Italians.

So I’m not here trying to do pointless comparisons between different nationals, as every people tends to have their particular weaknesses and strengths, and we in France certainly do, too.

That said, I’m getting more and more convinced, that the USA have this incredible and unique paradox (and problem) of having some of the best higher education institutions and brightest minds in the world, while accepting a dangerously low and disproportionate level of expectations for secondary education, and what a citizen can get by without knowing.

I won’t do the easy joke of “their president is a prime example of that”, but obviously, this is a democracy-threatening situation.

Something really doesn’t work here, and I’ll risk a cliché by saying many special interest groups are actually hard at work making things stay this way. Given that country’s influence on world affairs, we all have a right to be royally pissed about that.

And hell, even if this last paragraph sounds like a tired conspiracy rant from a naive 20-something , that doesn’t make it any less true.
What do you think ?