is probably less well-educated, maybe considerably less well educated, in terms of critical thinking skills, than the average German was in the early 20th century.



The common culture of well-educated Germans in that era was Goethe, Schopenhauer, Schiller, Marx, Hegel, Kant, Mozart, Beethoven, Mann, Brecht, etc. Germany of that era was also the most scientifically advanced country on the planet and home to Einstein, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Planck, Pauli, and countless other titans of science. Modern Americans, are to put it bluntly, largely imbeciles as to the important thought of the ages. Cultural philistines.



It's been easy for decades to graduate from many colleges without being meaningfully exposed to literature, history, philosophy or the other humanities. It's called getting a "business degree" an oxymoron if ever one there was. Business schools are, for the most part, corporate-funded money machines that manufacture by the tens of thousands, "educated" morons who have the cultural literacy of the likes of Sarah Palin. It is their purpose to do so. That is what the oligarchy wants. It does not want people who know how to think critically. Such people are, as Goebbels knew, a mortal danger to a fascist state.