Red
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So, are we better off elevating and promoting the Big Lie and QAnon, because I’m pretty sure the majority of intelligent people reject both as nothing but BS? Both ideas are out there in that free marketplace of ideas. And if people who know better object, just “eff them”? Should states rewrite their school history texts to reflect a belief that both the Big Lie and the QAnon narrative are true? And if noted historians object, “eff them”?
Nobody said, btw, to “blindly trust” anybody. But intelligent people often possess critical thinking skills that they can count on to separate wheat from chaff, fact from fiction. Or at least bring those critical faculties to bear, to the best of their abilities. And authorities are questioned all the time, in their various specialities. It’s called peer review, (although even that has been running into questionable scenarios in recent years, the pressure of publish or perish). So, I’m not sure thinking people just accept authority for authority’s sake as a rule of thumb. (But personal biases can certainly eat into objectivity) A lot of misinformation was spread, including by Trump, regarding Covid 19, and medicines/remedies to treat it. So, when medical authorities said “but this is nonsense”, in so many words, regarding false claims and phony cures, then the correct reply should have been “eff them”? Why? Why say “eff them” to medical elites trying to stamp out the idiotic suggestions?
I guess I’m just at a loss to understand why United States will be far better off elevating Stupidity as some kind of national standard we should aim for, and any “expert elitist” should maybe just move out of the country and find someplace where truth is actually the standard aimed for. I know Americans have had a very pronounced anti-intellectual attitude, dating to the earliest colonial times(intellectuals as such offered no practical skill set in a frontier environment), but from where I stand, as a lifelong observer of the American scene, our willingness now, in these first decades of the 21st century, to simply put, flat out dumb down our country as far as it can be dumbed down, strikes me as most unfortunate.
And alarming. I’m alarmed at the dumbing down of my country, but I will henceforth assume you are fine with this elevation of stupidity.
). I hope you don't think you are genuinely someone who has done away with passion and perspective in your postings. Not only would that make you inhuman, it would make you less interesting.
