I agree he is unable to get his message across because of his manner, as you can see with my messages to luke, i do not like that manner at all - however i believe dreyfus has a good message to give.
However i didn't think he was calling people dumb, just that they were no longer being taught the basics, and that he felt people were forgetting why america became great in the first place.
As I said, I agree with his point that basics should be taught in school. I strongly disagree with other points he makes. In my opinion, he is just as indoctrinated by scientific positivism as fundis are by fundamentalism. I'm not so sure he can differentiate between his general points and his indoctrinations. From his rather flowery and vague monologe, this is hard to tell.
Europe is not a dictatorship, however you cannot say the freedoms we have taken for granted for hundreds of years are not being taken away more and more.
I really don't see less freedom in Europe. Sure the EU imposes some restrictions but it also provides new freedom, e.g. a common currency, freedom of workplace, and political stability within the EU. In my profession, these are tremendous adavantages. I can say whatever I want, vote for the party I want, and be 99% sure to get all information necessary to form my political opinion. Also, the big cooperations do not have such direct influence on politics as in the US, which (power of the big cooperations) IMO constitutes the only true form of modern dictatorship.
