Ignorance is bliss
But it doesn't make you better than everyone - or
anyone - else.
The United States has been an anti-intellectual
zone for a long time. There are isolated pockets where that's not the case, but
the populace at large seems to harbor a very active antipathy toward excellence
and celebrate mediocrity. Especially when it's voluntary mediocrity. I suppose
that makes a certain kind of sense; we reward those who make an effort to fit
in. You like to think the pendulum swings, but so far it looks like it's still
arcing up. I recently participated in a Usenet thread in which someone was
insistent that he was right and everyone else was wrong based on a fact that
stopped being true 30+ years ago. In short, he thought he was better than
everyone else because he was ignorant.
Posted: Mon - December
5, 2005 at 08:08 AM