Ignorant and Free Doesn’t Work

Source: CounterPunch
by Joseph Natoli

“Education has gone down with reason itself, both at low ebb among Trump supporters. It is imagined that the bureaucratic dark web of the Deep State is woven in the web of reason itself. I would, however, assert that there is nothing in our present level of discourse that can dislodge and replace either the Scientific Method or the Western Rationalist Tradition. It is only because we are descending from a state of civilization to a world Hobbes feared (solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short), that we can presume to be both free and ignorant, ignorance here fully accepted as a ‘crushing’ of the purveyors of ‘fake news’ and all criticism of Trump.” (01/31/25)

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/31/ignorant-and-free-doesnt-work/