The Militant Extremist Side of Stupidity

Note that very little of this existed five years ago. Now we have millions of people who believe, from the BBC: the completely unfounded theory that says that President Trump is waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping pedophiles in government, business and the media. QAnon believers have speculated that this fight will lead to a day of reckoning where prominent people such as former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be arrested and executed.
I’m not a sociologist, but it seems that our rapidly collapsing educational system lies at the core here. People who read are unlikely to be flat-Earthers, or fight to “stop the steal.”
It’s hard to remain optimistic here, because we’re falling ever deeper into the abyss of ignorance.

This is the point I was making with my wife on our morning walk today.
Think there’s nothing funny about political corruption? Here’s a wonderful video to promote the documentary “Big Deal,” which covers
Question: What industry was more represented at the UN’s Climate Summit than any country? How many lobbyists from this industry were in attendance?
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The pandemic has made us question so many things about our world, one of which is workers’ wages. People aren’t returning to work as expected, largely because what they’re being paid doesn’t justify their putting their health at risk.
There are hundreds of different cost items that are associated with climate change. Road signage may not be a super-significant one, but, as suggested here, it’s quite real.
Author/satirist Jonathan Swift left us with this: If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last!
As I post the cartoon here, there are 952 comments on this Facebook post. And predictably, there is a bumper crop of climate change hoaxsters.