Michael Moore (idiot nation)

      In the Essay "Idiot Nation". by Michael Moore it states how America is becoming lazier and is being filled with idiots. The reasons this is occurring is because our country is being influenced and trained to surround their everyday lifestyles with technology. Before technology existed, almost everything was done by hand and people actually worked hard in their jobs and in everyday activities, but in our world today we rely on machinery and technology to do our work for us. Even children are being given toys that do not acquire the use of imagination or self involvement, everything is being done for them with the help of technology. Many of us are reading out of computers now and sadly books are being forgotten. In our world we are given three chances to gain education and they are; elementary, high school and college, many of us take advantage of this but sadly a large amount of us do not even care to explore it. We are given these education opportunities to make our nation smarter and for us to succeed, but as Micheal Moore states "our world is becoming an idiot nation". This is due to the fact that our society is not being motivated to learn and do better in life and gain greater accomplishments. The ones paying the consequences will be our children because they are growing up in a environment that is taking an easy way out, we are not learning things on our own but instead we are letting technology do the work for us. Education in America is becoming a joke to many, because other countries are learning advanced information that is twice our level. For example, a great amount of our children are learning pre-Algebra in the ninth grade, while children in china are already in geometry. Many countries know more about our cultures, lifestyles and our education than we do of ourselves, I think that is really bad especially coming from the country believed to be the land of dreams and higher hopes. Also, another point would have to be the environment and conditions of our schools. Many of these schools are in poor condition, crowded and limited in materials, this being said; of-course our children are not going to want to put any effort in something they do not even enjoy being around. It is also true that Americans have become lazy and have lost the passion for books. Americans nowadays are being surrounded and powered by technology, many are too lazy to do things by hand and have become reliable to machinery and gadgets. One of the biggest reasons why America is being filled with idiots is because, Americans are filling up their brain with useless information about the next "gossip", when in fact we should be filling our brains with useful information such as; our politics, our future and our environment. I truly believe that Americans take a large amount of things for granted in their lives. We do not see the struggles that many have to go through in order to get what we have in our lives today.There are many unfortunate people out there that wish they had the lifestyles that we have or the education that we are being offered. Education should not be something taken for granted because there are many children and even adults who do not know how to read, write or even analyze things because they do not have the privilege of owning a book or even be able to afford to go to school. We are the ones that will set the standards for our children and societies future, so why not educate ourselves and make a better life for our country and its opportunities?. i know that technology is tempting and we have gotten lost in how easy it makes things, but we must not forget that we need some time in our lives to do things on our own and feed our brain with new information everyday.