numan
What! Me Worry?
- Mar 23, 2013
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I think that James Madison was not quite as evil and stupid as his fellow insurrectionary terrorists.
For instance, he wrote:
"A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
One can well imagine his opinion of the sorry state of education in the modern USA, and his horror at seeing ownership of the mass media concentrated into the totalitarian hands of so few controllers.
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I think that James Madison was not quite as evil and stupid as his fellow insurrectionary terrorists.
For instance, he wrote:
"A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
One can well imagine his opinion of the sorry state of education in the modern USA, and his horror at seeing ownership of the mass media concentrated into the totalitarian hands of so few controllers.
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