Common knowledge ain’t so common

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During my school time, I had only 1 year where I scored top in History. That was the year I spend in the US. I was amazed that I would get away with studying for tests by just reading up literally 5 minutes before the test, and still scoring at least 95% correct.

With that in mind, I am still flabbergasted when I see the following video, where randomly picked people are asked questions that I thought everybody ought to know the answer to:

As we learned from the Matrix “ignorance is bliss” - but I do find it scary how casually some of the interviewed agree to attack any country (ranging from Iran to Italy, France, Germany and New Zealand to Israel) and their reasoning (”I think there is some friction”) behind it. Is this all down to Fox?

The combination of non-understanding (and, worst: total lack of interest) combined with potent trigger-happiness does induce queasiness…

Like most Europeans, I love the US and its people. But some things I just do not understand.

Video link via The Thinking Blog, who hopes that the video was an April’s fool prank.