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6. The cult of stupidity is getting stronger...

Reply to Orrex (Original post)

Tue Jul 26, 2016, 10:22 AM

Jul 2016

Thanks mostly to the Internet.

In the 50's, before Sputnik, Isaac Asimov wrote an essay called "The Cult Of Ignorance," where he decried how the then popular media, (especially movies,) celebrated ignorance and denigrated intellectuals and science.

Today, it's the cult of stupidity, thanks mostly to talk radio and the Internet.
Faux "news" doesn't help either.

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Russian hackers [View all] Orrex Jul 2016 OP

There aren't many rational conservatives now days. Tobin S. Jul 2016 #1

Yes indeed. Orrex Jul 2016 #2

Yeah, I was kinda getting that vibe from your description of him. :) Tobin S. Jul 2016 #3

No amount of evidence will likely change his mind. progressoid Jul 2016 #4

LOL. You've stated it exactly. Orrex Jul 2016 #5

The cult of stupidity is getting stronger... Archae Jul 2016 #6

You know, something obvious just now occurred to me Orrex Jul 2016 #7

The hackers were obviously shape-shifting lizards. DetlefK Jul 2016 #8

A sad update to this sad tale Orrex Oct 2016 #9

Next time, demand that he proves that he's NOT a government agent working for Obama. DetlefK Oct 2016 #10