Maggie's Farm

Which is why providing a fundamental skills education was a worthwhile endeavor. That way, if you wanted to learn something, you could look it up and read about it. Instead, people prefer being fed a bunch of baseless propaganda. Reading and research skills, not so much.

One merely needs to observe the prevalance and popularity of so much basic foolishness. Witchcraft, global warming, animal rights, organic food, save the whales, polar bears and a thousand other primitive supersitions.

My personal favorites are the widely disseminated ancient alien theories and the chem trails conspiracy. Never mind that the ancient aliens junk was debunked back in the 70's and never mind that nobody ever collected any chemicals from the supposed spray program.

I suppose when you begin with a frame of reference that is filled with garbage, anything goes.