Presidential Debate

[apandapion]

The sad thing is, people in good ol' Europe aren't a lot different from the "ignorant masses" in America. Super-arrogant as it may sound, a hefty percentage of any population are just, well, "uneducated" (used to avoid the word dumb). Sounds really arrogant, but take a look around your country. Ignorance reigns supreme, apparantly it really is bliss to some :( . This is not meant as a self-glorifiying "I so smart" comment. I assume that we, who post on an internet forum of considerable standards, more or less were all treated to some kind of higher education and live in circumstances that don't inhibit our ability to "learn". We are lucky.

I've really enjoyed reading this thread, just because there are a bunch of different ideologies present.

Moving on, though, very few people are totally ignorant. You have to be ignorant about something, like I am, say, about automotive repair. There's not enough hours in the year to know everything.

When somone (person A) describes someone else (person B ) as ignorant because they don't know about issue X ... the only real fact we learn from that is that person A considers issue X important. And important is all in the eyes of the beholder. Terrorism is only important now because it got to us (USA) now - despite the fact that other countries have been dealing with it for a long time. It was important long before 9/11 and will be important long after the eye of the hivemind focuses on some other problem. The eye of the hivemind has not made it magically more important, just more well known - and the things that we used to worry about (crime, aids, poverty) before the terrorism meme exploded across our forebrain have not become less important. But my how that wheel does squeak, so to speak.

Not #$%&ting your pants about the new world order's "problem of the week" may not be a sign of ignorance - it might be a sign of maturity.