You Can Lead A Horse To Water, But You Can’t Make Him Think

Something future historians will struggle to explain is that, in the 21st century, all of human knowledge became instantly accessible to anyone in the world & the primary effect was to make everyone much dumber.

— David Roberts (@drvolts) May 20, 2024

Since Ben Franklin started the public library system, and land grant colleges began about a century later, there has always been access to knowledge.

What the internet changed was the access to the ignorant and those impervious to knowledge. Who are as American as apple pie.

It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.