World flat?

[blessingx]

I'm not sure if this is going to get labeled politics (reality and all), but interestingly American television now has a host that doesn't know if the world is flat. I wonder what else isn't important to her? Am I overreacting or does this say something very sad about the state of things in the U.S.? Someone have a more optomistic explanation?

 

[Superpredator]

Yes it does, and no I don't.

 

[devin_mm]

What?!?! You mean the world isn't flat? Next you'll tell me it isn't sitting on the back of a giant turtle.

 

[The Pieman]

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Originally Posted by devin_mm /img/forum/go_quote.gif What?!?! You mean the world isn't flat? Next you'll tell me it isn't sitting on the back of a giant turtle.

Beat me to it!

 

[RYCeT]

It's difficult to comment on this issue without getting labeled as politics and yes it is very sad considering U.S supposed to be a developed nations. I guess regardless how developed a nation can be, there will always be morons.

 

[ken36]

Well, all I know is, if it's on TV, it must be true.

 

[stevenkelby]

It's turtles all the way down.

 

[NiceCans]

many people would rather believe a thing than to know a thing

 

[Duggeh]

It sounds as though shes trying to avoid answering a question because she thinks its a trick question. Even so it goes to show you the fundamental gaps in many peoples knowledge. I wonder if she could spot the USA on a world map...

 

[ecclesand]

The View hasn't been worth watching since Rosie left...

 

[Mister Crash]

The thread title reminded me of "A Study in Scarlet", the first Sherlock Holmes story. Here is an excerpt (taken from http://www.citsoft.com/holmes.new/no...t/sh0002.html), wherein Dr. Watson describes the peculiar mind of his new roommate:

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to me to be such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.

"You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it."

"To forget it!"

"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

"But the Solar System!" I protested.

"What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."

 

[blessingx]

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Originally Posted by RYCeT /img/forum/go_quote.gif I guess regardless how developed a nation can be, there will always be morons.

Well at least morans. And I liked the Barbara Walters you can do both comment.

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Originally Posted by Duggeh /img/forum/go_quote.gif It sounds as though shes trying to avoid answering a question because she thinks its a trick question.

She sure does. Hesitate giving weight to science by confirming the Earth is flat. I wonder how much further she would have gone to avoid getting trapped?

I wonder which demographics (in association or opposition) the show is after by hiring her? Also is she there to make the other women look smarter (one of them is certainly cringing the whole time)? Create controversy? To laugh at? Certainly a show like this they would have asked her a ton of questions before the hire.

 

[NacMacFeegle]

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Originally Posted by devin_mm /img/forum/go_quote.gif What?!?! You mean the world isn't flat? Next you'll tell me it isn't sitting on the back of a giant turtle.

Ha! good one...

 

[tjkurita]

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Originally Posted by stevenkelby /img/forum/go_quote.gif It's turtles all the way down.

Beat me to it! One of my favorite phrases.

 

[Kirosia]

The world is a giant bowl of cherry schnapps.