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April 13, 2016
"What of the ignorant-commons? They flock to social media to recycle the talking points the scheming-elites gave them.
They think it makes them look smart. How it makes them look, is like Lenin’s “useful idiots,” except on the wane curve of their declining usefulness…What motivates the ignorant commons to persist in their ignorance, and to spread it to others? This answers itself, somewhat, because of the enabling factor. Wallowing in ignorance feels so much better if others share in it. And so we are burdened in the tragedy of ignoramuses working so much harder at recruiting, at pulling others into mire of the ignorance, than those who have successfully extracted themselves work at keeping others out of it. House of Eratosthenes
Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 13, 2016 7:54 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.