A subject for discussion: The problems of our world today can largely be traced to people who think they are educated, but who are actually just indoctrinated.
I haven’t been able to locate any recent polling on it, but a 2003 poll by Gallup revealed that 75% of the poll respondents believed that more than one man was involved in the assassination of JFK. I’ll bet that this figure would hold true today. There is only one, tiny thing wrong with the concept that people other than Oswald were involved – there isn’t even the slightest bit of evidence to indicate someone other than Oswald was involved. I know, some people out there are already going, “but what about the…” and “didn’t you know about the…”…yes, yes; I know. I’ve heard them all. All of the assertions underpinning a conspiracy are based on outright falsehoods or gross misrepresentations of the data. A screwball killed the President for utterly screwball reasons. Its tragic – but that is, also, the end of the story.
Why is this important? Because it illustrates how utter nonsense can be imprinted on the national consciousness – in other words, it shows that we can be indoctrinated…and if a poll shows 75% believe that multiple people had a hand in killing Kennedy, that means that a very large percentage of the educated believe such nonsense. We have vast amounts of knowledge continuously at our fingertips – we have, for the first time in human history, the ability to learn whole, new fields of knowledge just by clicking on a computer screen. And yet we are a startlingly ignorant people. We believe stuff fit for fairy tales.
We can send a man to the moon, but we can’t tell truth from a lie – which situation is a delight, no doubt, to he who started the lies, but which is not conducive to maintaining freedom and justice in America. We are educated enough to make an atomic bomb, but too ignorant – in a lot of ways – to be trusted with it. We need to start being a lot less ignorant, lest we wind up slaves with MBAs.
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