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To: Enchante

The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.

QUOTES AUTHORS ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Robert A. Heinlein Quotes and Sayings

“[T]here 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/her opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.”

— Robert A. Heinlein


58 posted on 01/14/2018 2:46:14 PM PST by Grampa Dave (America had regime change 20 Jan 2017! ISIS collapsed! Are Iran/Our media, the DNC/FBI/DOJ/CIA next?)
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To: Grampa Dave

A tagline of mine from 15 years ago...

This is the age of the death of reason!


60 posted on 01/14/2018 2:54:36 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Grampa Dave
Thank you GD
That Heinlein quote is a keeper.

Heinlein has always been among my 5 top SF authors.

79 posted on 01/14/2018 4:59:12 PM PST by publius911 (CBS: "Asking the right questions is 100% of catching sexual abusers")
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