"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." Orwell
"“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant" Robespierre
Friday, May 31, 2013
The Final Frontier
At the top of the list of things I'll never understand about right-wing zealots is their insistence that these people, whom their god has been creating since Adam ate an Archeopteryx, are a threat, an affront, or anything other than valuable human beings.
And if I ever figure that one out, I'll work on why those wingnuts also prefer misinformation to truth, why they actively reject facts that show they're wrong, in all things. If there's a trait that's destructive, and an affront to functioning society, surely it's that.
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