Dumb people are now well-informed about the opinions of Time magazine and CBS, The New York Times and the President; their job is to choose which pre-thought thoughts, which received opinions, they like best. The élite in this new empire of ignorance are those who know the most pre-thought thoughts.
JTG, profoundly insightful, as always. I could highlight the whole article.
The new dumbness is particularly deadly to middle and upper-middle-class people, who have already been made shallow by the multiple requirements to conform. Too many people, uneasily convinced that they must know something because of a degree, diploma, or license, remain so convinced until a brutal divorce, alienation from their children, loss of employment, or periodic fits of meaninglessness manage to tip the precarious mental balance of their incomplete humanity, their stillborn adult lives.
It took me about ten years to fully shake off the effects of schooling, but it was well worth the effort.
As JTG said, they'll get my kids over my dead body.
What I found particularly facinating is the claim that the Public Schools in Prussia (later to become Germany) contributed to the rise in Naziism and both World Wars.
THAT'S something you won't find in the history books.