The democratization process that took place, in America and Europe during the period from 1776-1850 was severely restricted by gender, color and class. Numerous intellectuals supported these restrictions for they feared mob rule and the emergence of leaders who would utilize ignorance to lead the mob in directions that both the wealthy and the educated feared.
These predictions became a large part of 20th century history as the names Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Mussolini make clear. Ideological alliances, national socialism and communism has lead to tens of millions of people dying.
It is not a problem that is of easy solution: where the uneducated might be prêt to simple factual understanding: Obama was not born in the U.S. or a panel will decide whether the aged live or die; many intellectuals happily embraced.
Having lived for eight years among the uneducated, I am amazed at what people can imagine or believe. The human mind seems to be a machine for producing continuous nonsense, fed by a popular media that an educated individual can only wonder at.
The trash that so many are eating can only make them ill. What our senses take in is food. We eat sensation and that sensation has more effect upon us than the food we eat.
The TV diet is loathsome. Its effect will eventually be more apparent than the effect of the bad diet that has produced a population of increasing obese people.
We are what we eat: we become what we perceive.
Sad indeed. I worked in a L.A. county juvenile prison. The lack of individuality was sad. The lack of motivation to improve was not there. The diet was illness. This is a dire post by Ira.
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