Here we go again, another week with scores of emails landing in my Inbox from total strangers. It’s déjà vu about what my column focused on last week: The dumbing-down of America.
I first wrote on that subject three weeks ago and that column was picked up and distributed by the Yahoo News website, meaning people from Lawndale in Logan County to Timbuktu and points in between could read it. I wasn’t aware of that until a bunch of emails began pouring my way, from people who said they read my piece on Yahoo News and felt compelled to respond. Last week, my column included several of those responses.
Yahoo News also picked up and published that column late last week, thus a fresh batch of new emails. Here are a few, beginning with one of the rare messages that didn’t agree with my opinion.
I’ll give the writer of that particular response credit for one thing: Johnny Hockey certainly is a practitioner of word economy. He well knows how to get his point across with very few words. Here is his message to me:
“You’re an idiot.”
Thank you, Mr. Hockey, for not mincing words. You would probably put the same label on the many folks who wrote responses indicating they also are watching, some in horror, at the dumbing-down of the U.S. citizenry. Some of those comments are below:
From Peter Murtough: “We embrace your article on the dumbing-down of America.
“My family and I have been speaking of this regularly since November 8, 2016, as well the verbally…
