WISE FROM WISDOM: Where it comes from

Most people feel a sense of superiority and intelligence in their ignorance BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THEY ARE WISE, only because they are told they are wise, NOT BECAUSE THEY HAVE GAINED ANY WISDOM. To control the knowledge is to truly have all the power. People are not well educated, just well indoctrinated. If you've read Brave New World, 1984, or Anthem by Ayn Rand than you understand that two of the common themes of these books are 1) the lack of individualism (Communism, collective society) and 2) ignorance of facts. The people (characters) are devoid of knowledge and are only given what those in charge believe they need. If one is lied to enough the lie becomes truth. Ignorance is the only path to Communism. That's why the liberals took over the education systems and the media.

My good friend Ari David, someone I highly respect, pondered:

"The problem is that an informed electorate, well informed on the facts of the issues at hand in this day and age, is critical to preserving this country's safety, prosperity and freedom. In an election year like this one, on which so much matters, it is a tragedy of immense proportion that so many well educated people just buy whole cloth the preposterous factoids the mainstream news media reports as rumor or truth and then these well informed people repeat it as gospel.”

The truth is, people believe they are informed, they believe they have facts. The news ACTS as though they are unbiased and factual. Hannity admits his bias. The 11 o'clock news does not. ABC does not. The AP does not. The people believe they are preserving America, they just don't know what America is. They don't know history, only the misinformation they were taught in school. They believe they have all the facts, but they are only armed with one side.

Here's an example: I have given facts, indisputable facts from the Center for Disease Control, the CDC, hardly a right wing think tank, to argue my point and been told that it's just right wing rhetoric. When the person I'm debating can no longer argue their point that's their out. Whatever I say, it's just right wing rhetoric. What can you do with that? These are people with MBA's, teachers, leaders, people who make over $100k per year. I have discussed abortion with people who’ve graduated Ivy League schools who didn’t know that it was legal through all 9 months, didn’t understand what partial-birth abortion was or even at what stage it was performed. But they are fed misinformation and believe they are wise. And this is our future.