I remember a coworker and I involved in a federal enforcement action many years ago. The subjects involved in the violations were not very educated. In the dialogue we had with these folks, we became aware that they seemed to celebrate ignorance. We coined the phase that they "held to ignorance as if it was a virtue".
I think Carl Sagan's foresight was astonishing.
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That is a really good book.
I am Canadian, a bit foreign in culture, but close enough to be able to absorb. My wife and I arrived at that conclusion years ago, that too many in the US celebrate ignorance.
Here is an interesting joke.
A US businessman arrived at Reykjavik, Iceland, and at the airport he caught a cab. Assuming he would be taken to the government buildings, he told the cab driver to take him to the most important building in Iceland. The cabbie took him to the library.
Such are the differences in cultures.
But this is not the first time we have seen this cycle. Since the end of WW2, being so comfortable, the education standards in the US were allowed to slip. But when the Russians were the first to put a man in space, the US focused on higher education standards. But sadly now, those standards are not very low.
trump is currently the president. That is the best example of ignorance.
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Very true. With trump it stands for, McDonalds And Golf Again!
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That is pretty scarily accurate prediction/foresight of current and likely future US culture.
I love and adore my wife, one of the very smartest people I know. But even she spends hours a day scrolling through social media on her phone. Where each thought presented competes with a thousand other 1 - 30 second thoughts, and any one individual thought presented would be lucky to be considered for more than 30 seconds. If the entire thought can not be consumed in less than 30 seconds, it is likely it will be skipped over.
Even this much more patient audience on these forums, I have quickly learned, if I want responses and discourse on my ideas presented, I need to simplify down the idea greatly, and then when the counter arguments come (because I could not fully flesh out my presented idea) It is better I simply respond to the counter arguments instead of making a full stand alone response that tries to cover all the major counter arguments.