I said education and democracy, as a combo, are supposed to make you less partisan. It is a claim that I did not ratify by any means, but is it not a common claim and the basis of propaganda? "We know better because we are more advanced technologically, materially and intellectually"? I fully agree that many "unschooled" people are not only more intelligent, but better informed than many PHDs. My reference to the Universe is in the post-modern sense that parochial ideas should be measured against a wider background of time and space. It is not literal and grandiose, but poetic.
I said education and democracy, as a combo, are supposed to make you less partisan. It is a claim that I did not ratify by any means, but is it not a common claim and the basis of propaganda? "We know better because we are more advanced technologically, materially and intellectually"? I fully agree that many "unschooled" people are not only more intelligent, but better informed than many PHDs. My reference to the Universe is in the post-modern sense that parochial ideas should be measured against a wider background of time and space. It is not literal and grandiose, but poetic.