As anyone could have predicted, there is a huge correlation between poor education/ignorance, moral poverty, and incarceration levels.
Tag: ignorance
Presenting Sir David Attenborough
An international hero. I met a guy earlier today, and we were discussing why human civilization is losing the battle against environmental collapse. The answer, obviously, is that there are too few David Attenboroughs and too much greed, ignorance, indifference, …
The Future Isn’t Always an Extrapolation of the Past
If the future looks like the past, it’s very clear that our legacy for generations to come will feature overwhelming amounts of authoritarianism, greed, ignorance, racism, environmental collapse, perhaps along with nuclear conflagration. Fortunately, as some brilliant mind put forward, …
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Vaccinations: “I Don’t Know Who Needs to Hear This….”
Well, I know exactly who needs to hear this (not that it will make any difference). There are two different, though related types of anti-vaxxers: 1) Those who carry with them the erroneous idea that vaccinations don’t work. It’s essentially …
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From the Latin
Tom Cepel writes: I went to a job fair at my alma mater. A lady at registration gave me this name tag. I told her I couldn’t wear it because there’s only one of me. I really don’t have a …
Ignorance Ultimately Brings Violence
“Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, hate leads to violence. That is the equation.” Access to high quality public education is absolutely critical to our ability, as Americans, to reverse the course of all the horrific behavior that …
What We Can Learn from a Ranking of the Nifty Fifty
As shown in the graphic below, a very long conversation could be had about the well-being of the people in each of the 50 U.S. states. Maybe what it shows is that, for the most part, the states are composites of …
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