Remarks on the theme of The Public Good: Knowledge as the Foundation for a Democratic Society
Two things must be said about knowledge-deniers. Their rationale is always political. And more often than not, they hold in their hand a sacred text for certification.
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The president may speak of the nation in idealistic terms but his actions demonstrate that he has no real concept of national community. His America, like that of his sponsors, is a population to be manipulated for the power to be had for the money to be made. He is the subject of jokes and he jokes himself about his clumsiness with words, but his mispronunciations and malapropisms suggest a mind of half-learned language that is eerily compatible with his indifference to truth, his disdain for knowledge as a foundation of a democratic society.
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