There are people who think the Garden of Eden had latitude and longitude and evolution is a preposterous lie. I don’ t know how we all can hope to get together in more than a superficial and insignificant way and do anything in the service of a deeper good for human kind and the planet we live on. If people cannot think for themselves in assessing the truth of a situation they will live at the mercy of propaganda and indoctrination all their life long, doing what they are told to do, thinking what they are told to think, with no idea of in what direction the public good lies and what shape and form it should take, in the matter of global warming, for example, or public health with regard to vaccines and water purity. They will never know when they are being lied to and led along the way to voting for their own worst interests. They are swayed by the loudest voices to absurd conclusions and catastrophic outcomes, having no idea of what they are doing. What is the antidote to stupidity? The cure for ignorance and narrow mindedness? How do we get from where we are to where we need to be as a nation? As a word?
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