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  • Age of Ignorance (projectile vomit alert)

    12/30/2013 4:56:23 PM PST · by CreviceTool · 17 replies
    New York Review of Books ^ | March 20, 2012 | Charles Simic
    Widespread ignorance bordering on idiocy is our new national goal. It’s no use pretending otherwise and telling us, as Thomas Friedman did in the Times a few days ago, that educated people are the nation’s most valuable resources. Sure, they are, but do we still want them? It doesn’t look to me as if we do. The ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state, such as the one we now have, is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bull$hit. An educated, well-informed population, the kind that a functioning democracy requires, would be difficult to lie to, and could...