Jun 23, 2023
You nailed it, Umair. (Again).
Our world has real challenges, and these challenges could be tackled and at least mitigated by our most brilliant people.
But every potential solution, every potential real leader, must run the gauntlet of militant idiots, opportunistic con men, cynical disinformation agents, raging bigots and thugs screaming "FAKE NEWS!" or "LOCK HER UP!".
As writer Isaac Asimov so aptly put it:
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
