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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: koan who wrote (334188)4/20/2017 11:56:45 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 542104
 
"It is important to be polite to ignorant people for purposes of their well being,"
It's important to remember that somebody isn't ignorant just because he doesn't see things the same way you do.

"Virtually every problem the human species incurs can be traced back to ignorance."
Most can be traced back to advances (often driven by war) in science, public health, and agriculture, too.

Once we were dumb; then our most educated taught the rest of us how to blow up the entire planet in about 90 minutes



and we taught ourselves how to cure pneumonia with bread mold which led to

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