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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.


Isaac Asimov


#intellectual #political #willful-ignorance #life

If anyone ever told five-year-olds the truth about life, he thought, there’d be a rash of kindergarten suicides.


P.J. Tracy


#live-bait #p-j-tracy #life

Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.


Jennifer Granholm


#democracy #every #filibuster #laws #most

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.


Stacy Schiff


#facts-and-ideas #history #myth #life

Just a thought. What sets us above all other life on this planet is our ability to read. What we read can determine our relationship with all other life on this planet.


M.J. Croan


#life

This, not incidentally, is another perfect setting for deindividuation: on one side, the functionary behind a wall of security glass following a script laid out with the intention that it should be applied no matter what the specific human story may be, told to remain emotionally disinvested as far as possible so as to avoid preferential treatment of one person over another - and needing to follow that advice to avoid being swamped by empathy for fellow human beings in distress. The functionary becomes a mixture of Zimbardo's prison guards and the experimenter himself, under siege from without while at the same time following an inflexible rubric set down by those higher up the hierarchical chain, people whose job description makes them responsible, but who in turn see themselves as serving the general public as a non-specific entity and believe or have been told that only strict adherence to a system can produce impartial fairness. Fairness is supposed to be vested in the code: no human can or should make the system fairer by exercising judgement. In other words, the whole thing creates a collective responsibility culminating in a blameless loop. Everyone assumes that it's not their place to take direct personal responsibility for what happens; that level of vested individual power is part of the previous almost feudal version of responsibility. The deindividuation is actually to a certain extent the desired outcome, though its negative consequences are not.


Nick Harkaway


#bureaucracy #government #individual #life #power

Everyone loves a conspiracy.


Dan Brown


#love

Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of triumph, just as Irish heroes had once tied to their waists their enemies' heads. Where they went they brought their love of learning and their skills in bookmaking. In the bays and valleys of their exile, they reestablished literacy and breathed new life into the exhausted literary culture of Europe. And that is how the Irish saved civilization.


Thomas Cahill


#irish #literacy #life

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?


Thomas Pynchon


#age

He switched off the light, came back and sat in the chair. In the darkness, Liesel kept her eyes open. She was watching the words.


Markus Zusak


#learning #learning-to-read #literacy #love #love






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