...and we scratch our heads and wonder why our schools are producing illiterate, mindless automatons who can't be bothered to care about anything outside their own limited sphere of inter-entertainment. Do you honestly believe this is accidental?
While the article that willravel posted makes a lot of sense and does so in a very witty manner, the truth is it's just not the peasants who are delusional. The entire middle-class (yes, even us enlightened Progressives) has been duped in a manner that would make the peasants look like the League of Skeptics, and what's worse is that we're too arrogant to believe we could be.
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"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am" - Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
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