An anthropological dilemma repeated here at DU:

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4. This only moves it back one step.

After education, then what? And how to educate? Media? Fine. But what if you have a media which participates in miseducation (cough, cough, Fox). Then what? Stop them? Fine. But . . .

Good, lord, there's not been a time in history when information has been more ready at hand. As most everyone admits, we are self-selective about the information we choose. If we choose some sort of self-affirmation, then it appears this is some sort of egoic, solipsistic gesture. If that's the case, then what? Do we have to force people to do what's best for them?

I mean all of the above not as a rebuke, but as dialogue. I agree education is important, but we've not really moved the ball forward with regards to my dilemma above. It's hard to educate those not interested in things outside of a priori "intuition." And, again, we're then back to the anthropoligical question--why do they refuse to be educated when it's so very obvious.