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Post by mhbruin on Jun 19, 2020 7:19:14 GMT -8
“Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.”
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Post by Born2BBruin on Jun 19, 2020 11:39:49 GMT -8
"The eternal fate of the noble and enlightened (is) to be brutally beaten by the armed and dumb."
- John Stewart and the Daily Show Staff, from "America, the Book".
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Post by gainsborough on Jun 19, 2020 13:17:57 GMT -8
Along the same vein, allow me to quote Isaac Asimov:
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
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Post by Born2BBruin on Jun 19, 2020 16:19:46 GMT -8
Along the same vein, allow me to quote Isaac Asimov: “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” Asimov was a great writer. Of course, it will be his fault when the robots take over. Then again, we probably deserve it. Things may even get better. It's hard to see how they could get worse. |
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Post by mhbruin on Jun 20, 2020 12:37:06 GMT -8
More Bierce:
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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