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kentuck

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59. But ignorance is not necessarily evil...

Tue Aug 13, 2019, 05:44 PM

Aug 2019

Because we can be ignorant and still learn better and change our way of thinking. Only when we refuse to change does ignorance become evil, in my opinion.

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I fear that a force of evil has been unleashed [View all] kentuck Aug 2019 OP

Rupert Murdoch? pwb Aug 2019 #1

Yes. An Australian has destroyed American journalism. Funtatlaguy Aug 2019 #2

Murdoch is the root of division and misinformation. Pepsidog Aug 2019 #24

He's guilty, but he's far from the only one. Downtown Hound Aug 2019 #40

I would still rather live in America than many other countries Beringia Aug 2019 #3

Not as long as the Scarsdale Aug 2019 #4

Get a copy of the book "True Believer" by Eric Hoffer Grasswire2 Aug 2019 #53

Take a vacation around the Scandinavian countries, I think it will open your eyes Perseus Aug 2019 #14

Sorry butb with ethnic diversity comes division... zaj Aug 2019 #31

Good points! Jim_Pridx Aug 2019 #49

And you can back up your statement right? lunatica Aug 2019 #57

One name for that evil force is Vladimir Putin. Lonestarblue Aug 2019 #5

Greed....Hatred....Delusion. These are the roots of this evil....and the enemy is "us" ashredux Aug 2019 #6

Inmates have taken over the asylum Fyrefox Aug 2019 #7

The stock market crashes, beginning in 1929, were labeled, [instead of the usual empedocles Aug 2019 #8

No offence but this sounds like the opening monologue of every TV evangelist. former9thward Aug 2019 #9

Not so much supernatural or demonic, but a backlash to the 90's when authoritarians fell, and ehrnst Aug 2019 #10

Ehrnst, I'm inclined to agree with you, but it's hard to beat the motivational power of good vs evil DemocracyMouse Aug 2019 #29

Technically, Russia has a "democracy" and it's not "good." ehrnst Aug 2019 #37

we're setting a bad example here thanks to liberal ignorance of talk radio and certainot Aug 2019 #11

We've been here before. Hortensis Aug 2019 #12

Hortensis, you are so right, and so well-spoken! DemocracyMouse Aug 2019 #32

:) Yeats' words live again. And isn't that scary. Hortensis Aug 2019 #34

With someone like Trump Timmygoat Aug 2019 #13

It's just the same old public interest common good vs greed and self interest bucolic_frolic Aug 2019 #15

that force is greed. mopinko Aug 2019 #16

Fortunately, it will soon end Roy Rolling Aug 2019 #17

Great choice. 58Sunliner Aug 2019 #47

Cambridge Analytica Johnny2X2X Aug 2019 #18

Similar but not the same Roy Rolling Aug 2019 #23

Not all rubes Johnny2X2X Aug 2019 #28

People believe what they WANT to believe. luvtheGWN Aug 2019 #35

I wish that were true Johnny2X2X Aug 2019 #38

That's fascinating... zaj Aug 2019 #36

agreed proud patriot Aug 2019 #51

The Great Hack about Cambridge Analytica & The Family are new docs on Netflix Hestia Aug 2019 #56

I feel llashram Aug 2019 #19

eddie glaud on mj just now mopinko Aug 2019 #20

'Twas ever thus. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2019 #21

Capitalism destroyed our Democracy, fascism will destroy the country. nt yaesu Aug 2019 #22

Recommended. H2O Man Aug 2019 #25

I agree, Kentuck. cilla4progress Aug 2019 #26

❤️ underpants Aug 2019 #27

I agree with you Kentuck but evil is just ignorance Taraman Aug 2019 #30

"evil is just ignorance" FiveGoodMen Aug 2019 #58

But ignorance is not necessarily evil... kentuck Aug 2019 #59

I just watched "The Hack" on Netfix... Bluethroughu Aug 2019 #33

I've been talking about this on here since the election Johnny2X2X Aug 2019 #39

I think it's because everyone knows we Bluethroughu Aug 2019 #42

Not sure what will work Johnny2X2X Aug 2019 #43

I have to agree with you. nancy1942 Aug 2019 #41

Nah. It's just too many humans realizing that soon there's going to be way less space & food. CrispyQ Aug 2019 #44

Midnight thoughts. I feel fairly bleak, too. I think the entire human world is about to convulse Hekate Aug 2019 #45

This would explain so much. I havetyhoughtof it, but do not have skip fox Aug 2019 #46

That evil has pretty much existed in most of the world Trenzalore Aug 2019 #48

and the phoenix will rise proud patriot Aug 2019 #50

Which island chain is that? (nt) mr_lebowski Aug 2019 #54

Aloha Malama Pono proud patriot Aug 2019 #60

Remember the Twilight Zone MFM008 Aug 2019 #52

kick Demovictory9 Aug 2019 #55