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America’s best critical thinkers will soon be found in . . .
New Jersey?
Have you heard the term “information literacy?” If not, you may want to reconsider how truly informed you are. What I mean is, are you consuming lies or the truth? Do you even know how to know anything correctly?
On an internet full of fast food information choices pushing tasty fillers over actual nutrition, you may want to get your cholesterol checked. Your brain may be full of intelligence-depleting plaque. I love to eat candy too but I know well enough not to vote for it.
Ok, not the best metaphor for all that using food. It’s probably because I skip breakfast most days. The gist is, do you even have the skills to know what the truth looks like? Would you believe that a jelly doughnut is a “health food” because your favorite cult of personality told you so? Just to be clear, doughnuts of any kind are not healthy food. Telling The People it’s healthy is bullshit. NJ wants to help make sure their students know it’s bullshit too.
New Jersey, of all the surprising places, is trying to ensure the next generation of graduating high schoolers is equipped with better bullshit detectors. They see how disinformation spread by non-scientists and unqualified pundits galavanting as “experts” led up to horrible choices for our entire democracy. In a…
