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Stupid people are too stupid to know they're stupid.
And!
... because they think they know it all, already.
Throughout America's ongoing collapse, I have been unable to "coddle" the dimwits. That would be misplaced pseudo-compassion - politically correct "absolution" because we must not dare hold the intellectually compromised responsible.
Yes, I so take into account the fact that a hugely disproportionate number of these folks do not have the same cerebral capacity as many others who are better endowed.
But ignorance -- unlike stupidity -- is remediable.
And those who are deliberately ignorant, - and this is my conviction - which includes nearly everyone who everyone who voted for Trump has deliberately ignored the "preponderance of evidence" that Trump -- on a deep psycho-spiritual level -- is in league with The Prince of Darkness, however you conceive that black hole to be.
During his monologue last night, Jimmy Kimmel pointed out that everyone lost on Election Day, including those who voted for His Malignancy: "they just haven't realized it yet."
To value any random opinion without taking the time to learn the pertinent facts is wrong... and perhaps unforgivable.
Carl Jung took exception with traditional Christian teaching which posits the need for an already-informed conscience if anyone is to make a moral (or immoral) decision.
Instead, Jung held that we are responsible to inform our conscience, and that we must do so with great care and focused attention IF we are to escape judgment for behaving in condemnable ways.
Ignorance does not absolve us of responsibility.
And our bedrock responsibility is to learn, using all the intellectual rigor at our disposal.
We cannot use presumptuous shortcuts to pretend we know what we demonstrably do not know.
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