Re: Liberalism
On Jul 5, 2007, at 9:14 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
Dennis Claxton wrote: >
I’d also wager this 14-year-old knows a lot of stuff about the
world that you haven’t a clue about.This was my premise. The “ignorance” and “stupidity” of so many americans, adult and teenage, is ideology-based — which is why
they can learn so fast when conditions break through that ideology. And is also why only events, for the most part, not preaching or agitation, can bring about that breakthrough.
I’ll agree that “ignorance” and “stupidity” are constructed, and not
the result of any biological deficiency among the American masses.
But the patterns of ignorance are interesting, no? No idea what the
hammer & sickle mean, no idea who the Chief Justice is, but quick to
name the winner of American Idol. That’s a pretty uphill climb for
the likes of you & me, no?
Doug