Age of Ignorance

Charles Simic has written a fantastic article in The New York Review of Books

It's all about the dumbing down of the American population and its consequences. Rather interesting and frightening read. It begins like this:

Widespread ignorance bordering on idiocy is our new national goal. It’s no use pretending otherwise and telling us, as Thomas Friedman did in the Times a few days ago, that educated people are the nation’s most valuable resources. Sure, they are, but do we still want them? It doesn’t look to me as if we do. The ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state, such as the one we now have, is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit.

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