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Christopher Colles's avatar

You have a massive uneducated population, Jen. A lot of them are not stupid, just uneducated.

They haven't been taught how to think.

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Sander Zulauf's avatar

That's been the plan since 1981. Dumb "education down," and now ban books and gut the Liberal Arts that promote critical thinking.

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Christopher Colles's avatar

Doing sometging about that would be good

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Sander Zulauf's avatar

So how? I remember being in James Wright's Martins Ferry, Ohio, and seeing the bumper sticker on his Aunt's storm door: "Readers are Leaders." The video game generation has turned potential readers into button pushers. That seems to be all the red team wants. Good heavens, not people who think!

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Christopher Colles's avatar

"the red team" vs the blue team.... hmmm

there's the other problem

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Sander Zulauf's avatar

How can we come together if we have book readers who seek the truth and book burners who dont wanna know the truth?

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Christopher Colles's avatar

Maybe that's it... books are on the way out

Do you think anyone under 50 reads this collection of missives?

not many under 60 I reckon.

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