S.G. CHEAH ON THE FAILURE OF OUR PUBLIC DISCOURSE: The inability to communicate properly stems from the inability to think properly. “The origin of this failure has its roots in the failure of the American public education system. We have reached the apex of the intellect’s destruction by the American schools and the results are what we can observe in the public’s inability to communicate properly. . . . The poisonous climate of public discourse we are witnessing online and on social media is merely the most explicitly observable symptom of this failure in education.”