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In reply to the discussion: The problem [View all]Nay
(12,051 posts)42. To nitpick just a little - I love Neil - but it's not that adults nowadays don't know science. I'd
bet there were just as many adults that didn't know science in the 50's and 60's, but back then, even if you were ignorant, you still RESPECTED science (and teachers, and learning in general) as a social good, as something that improved your life even if you didn't know fuck-all about it.
The RW changed all that by actively demonizing learning and science as liberal, or commie, or socialist, or a union boondoggle, whatever, simply for their own purposes of destroying 'liberalism.' So now we have legions of those same ignoramuses who not only don't know science, but have taken the further step of calling science (and knowledge in general) a social evil. That's a whole 'nother level of insanity.
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I hope I dont get Neil in a lot of trouble here, but I think he is God. Yeah, the real God.
rhett o rick
Jun 2013
#5
If you listen to NPR and watch PBS in the rural South they think you're a gay commie Al Queda spy
coldmountain
Jun 2013
#26
What breaks my heart about about America is the growth of willful ignorance
coldmountain
Jun 2013
#24
Nice, but what are we doing to work toward a solution? I can find a thousand opinions about
jtuck004
Jun 2013
#23
If you're not finding solutions, it is only because you are not looking for them. Dr. DeGrasse-Tyson
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2013
#32
Are you're saying that you lack the capacity to learn because you're old?
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2013
#48
To nitpick just a little - I love Neil - but it's not that adults nowadays don't know science. I'd
Nay
Jun 2013
#42
Stupid stands out when set next to intelligent. They don't like that so they attack.
L0oniX
Jun 2013
#43
True; my point was, though, that 'stupid' used to be ashamed of being stupid/ignorant, and
Nay
Jun 2013
#44
You're right, it isn't. Today the stupid/ignorant are fiercely proud of it and will go to
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2013
#55
ABSOLUTELY correct. TOO MANY ADULTS don't know what science is, how it works, or what it means.
patrice
Jun 2013
#45