John Williams wrote:
>I would go with lazy more than ignorant
I think that intellectual laziness leads to stupidity, though. How can live
your whole life in this country and not know Medicare is a government program,
to cite one of Maher's examples? Let alone not know there are two senators per
state, or any other of a number of things. I personally have no interest at all
in who Miley Cyrus is, but just by being alive (and having two "tween"
daughters, to be fair) you pick things up.
Additionally, it's one thing to be ignorant because you haven't had an
opportunity to learn. It's entirely another to be *purposefully* ignorant. You
don't have to want to learn everything about everything; there's no way to do
that. And it's OK to have topics that are of no interest to you - I have no
more interest in learning to operate a bulldozer than one of my clients has in
learning ERISA. But if you squeeze your eyes shut and put your fingers in your
ears and yell "LALALALALALAAAAAAA" anytime a piece of knowledge is dropped on
you, whether it's because it contradicts your religious dogma or makes you
question your personal weltanschauung or because you find learning to be far
too onerous a task, I will argue that you're stupid.
Jim
Darn you guys for making me de-lurk Maru
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