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Besides the implied xenophobia here (the whole "war on Christianity" trope that's been getting trotted out by the far right), it's important to remember that an
by vikingcaffiene 7y ago
Besides the implied xenophobia here (the whole "war on Christianity" trope that's been getting trotted out by the far right), it's important to remember that an educated population is not in the best interests of the politicians who put trash like this law together. They _want_ you to be uninformed. They _want_ you to leave the big questions to a higher power. The stupider their constituency, the better. There are few better ways to control a large mass of people than to keep them stupid and then manipulate them emotionally. The only thing I find shocking about things like this is that there are people so devoid of anything I would call a moral compass that they are willing to go here.
- jacobush 7y agoI don't really disagree with you, it's just that I think it's more of the usual divide and conquer, and pander to your perceived constituency more than anything else.
- henryackerman 7y agoKeeping the general population uneducated is very beneficial for divide and conquer. It's far easier to divide stupid people who don't have any sense of critical thought.
- vikingcaffiene 7y agoOh we are in complete agreement there. I was just speaking to another facet of the issue. :)
- ubermonkey 7y agoExactly. 13 years ago, my friend R. said this in an IM chat we were having. I found it resonant enough that it's been one of my rotating .sig quotes ever since: "An educated public is exactly what they don't want . . . more people believe in angels than believe in long division." (R., for his part, may well read HN -- he's a Scala bigwig now.)