Drawing on many large-scale surveys of American youth, Mark Bauerlein's 2008 book The Dumbest Generation reveals how little knowledge of the world could be found among students in the US. Unlike my Japanese students, most could not even identify Egypt on a map.
On a 2001 history exam, 52 percent of high school seniors thought that Germany, Japan, or Italy were American allies in World War II. As Bauerlein points out, many of their elders can certainly be blamed for failing to give them real knowledge about the past.
Broadly speaking, many people have become victims of their limited knowledge of history and other subjects.
By the "Knowledge of history," I mean real knowledge, in contrast to false knowledge, which is often simply political propaganda dressed up as information.
People often mistakenly look to academics as authoritative, informed sources of knowledge about world events and controversial issues.
During the Covid mania, many politicians, bureaucrats, academics, and international organizations acted as creators and facilitators of false knowledge, abusing their positions as authorities.
While aggressively doing this, they branded anything that conflicted with their messaging as "Misinformation." Obviously, that campaign hindered many people from arriving at reliable knowledge on the subject of Covid.
https://brownstone.org/articles/false-knowledge-is-our-fools-gold/
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