Category: 11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
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Johann Hari on the Triumph of Unreason
You have to admire the audacity of the right. Here’s what’s actually happening. The US is the only major industrialised country that does not provide regular healthcare to all its citizens. Instead, they are required to provide for themselves – and 50 million people can’t afford the insurance. As a result, 18,000 US citizens die […]
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Propaganda, Frustration, Anger and Violence
Show me a time in our history when a bunch of people ever assembled together for the purpose of freely exchanging valid and factually accurate ideas beyond the level of a school board meeting. It’s never happened. It’s a fiction. Political discourse in this country has always been and will always be about propaganda, frustration, […]
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Bill Maher: 'America is a Stupid Country'
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