RE: Unfuckingbelievable.
July 5, 2011 at 1:04 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2011 at 1:59 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(July 4, 2011 at 5:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/07/03/n...dence-day/
Quote:According to the poll, only 58 percent of Americans know the United States declared its independence in 1776. Twenty-six percent were unsure and 16 percent said another date.
How can you find the modest prevelence of comparatively modest ignorance hard to believe, when you've clearly already absorbed the fact that our society is riven with such extradianry prevelence of extraordinary ignorance as signified by utterly disgusting fact that the majority of its citizens still identify themselves, in the 21st century with space travel and quantum mechanics, as the follower of a demented little 1st century preacher from the apocolyptic offshoot of a minor and very unpleasant little enthnocentric bronze age cult?
No volume or quanlity of stupidity uttered on any subject could surpass my immediate expectation once a person identifies himself as a christian or muslim. It's not that I think every christian is already stupid about every things. It's that if a person could truly embrace christianity, then that betrays the fact that he is has no real safeguard against embracing anything which is told to him and he finds comforting. As such he has nothing that really securely keep him from becoming stupid about all other things so long as the stupidity can bring a contented smile to his face or appear to him to resolve some inner angst. What he believes thus can be totally detached from any reasonable process of truth finding, and can be totally dictated by the capricious whims of his inner intellectual dis-integrity.
