... a pastor and a family law practitioner and a college teacher and an employee and alive for 70 years, I didn’t have to write a book to not be shocked.Having written a book about this, it is not a shock to me that a great number of Americans are self-destructive and stubbornly ignorant. https://t.co/Oq9MkpSGf9
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) June 1, 2025
Thinking is hard. Ignorance is easy. Like a teacher I had once said, people are like electricity: they will always follow the path of least resistance.
Does no one remember how one minute that war in Europe was none of our fucking business because the Founding Fathers had the wisdom to not make us have a standing army or get involved in foreign affairs? And the next day we were in it to win it. As Churchill said, you can trust Americans to do the right thing, after they’ve tried everything else.
Usually more succinctly put as: “Even a blind hog finds an acorn.” Or, my favorite: “God looks out for drunkards and fools.” On what evidence, I have no idea.
Path of least resistance. Stubbornly ignorant. Sure. Every time. We’ve always wanted to pursue happiness. And always told ourselves it would be easy. All we really need is a better mousetrap.
The truth has an intrinsic weakness over lies, lies don't have to conform to reality which is often not welcomed and sometimes is harder to understand. Lots of Americans' inborn ignorance is serviced by our free press through its providing lies for easy consumption over the truth that they'd need to navigate reality AND VOTE FOR CANDIDATES WHO ARE TELLING THE TRUTH.
ReplyDeleteDemocracy either will come to terms with that truth, in exactly the same way Jemmy Madison and his colleagues didn't - that it was profitable to slave-holders and financiers to enable lies is certainly part of the truth of that malfeasance - or democracy will die.