The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance! (please read the date this was published)
But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and sub-literate every time he opens his mouth. (Most of his fans were just as ignorant and unlettered; the disease was spreading.)
To Sail Beyond The Sunset (1987) Robert A. Heinlein
4 posted on 11/27/2017, 5:57:44 AM by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
Great Heinlein quote.
Like his fiction, hate his buddy L. Ron Hubbard’s religion.