cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/28113982
It has its drawbacks.
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov
Democracy only works properly with good access to factual information and good education.
which is why in America, certain parties are proposing banning books and cutting funding to education. They want to make sure their base stays stupid enough to vote for them.
I prefer Parenti’s quote on democracy
Democracy is a wonderful invention by the people over history to protect themselves from the power of wealth. That’s what democracy was in Greece, that’s what democracy has been ever since. It’s an invention of the people, nobody else but the people. There’s no great philosopher that invented democracy, there’s no great political theorist that thought about it and put it together, there’s no great intellectual or writer or artist who created democracy! It was the mass of people! Anonymous, ordinary working people, working women and working men, people trying to survive, they’re the ones that fought for it and they’re the ones that gained whatever modicum of decency and security we might have in this inhumane capitalist system throughout history.
Not a meme?
for very
goodbad reasons
He’s right but fuck Chomsky sideways with a running rusted chainsaw for being a genocide denier and a red washed realist as bad as Kissenger.
He denies the Bosnian Genocide and thinks everyone who split from Soviet Colonialism are ungrateful brats
