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MisterP

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33. *repeatedly* (OTOH they had Antikythera-level machines in Byzantium around 500)

Reply to L0oniX (Reply #29)

Wed Dec 24, 2014, 03:16 PM

Dec 2014

they're broke now

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America's Dangerous Turn to Anti-Intellectualism [View all] xchrom Dec 2014 OP

Read H. Beam Piper's Null-ABC hobbit709 Dec 2014 #1

Remember how the idiots in _Idiocracy_ suspected anyone who could read? nt tblue37 Dec 2014 #61

Anyone feel like we're repeating history? marym625 Dec 2014 #2

If this wholesale attack on knowledge and learning keeps up meow2u3 Dec 2014 #4

yep. marym625 Dec 2014 #5

Those people learned more in their association with Stalin Sweeney Dec 2014 #8

Sweeney Diclotican Dec 2014 #23

Teabaggers would spell it "Rain" hobbit709 Dec 2014 #6

If the idiots are willing to do anything it is better than talking the situation to death Sweeney Dec 2014 #7

"Fourth rein," surely malthaussen Dec 2014 #21

Yes, and they burned them also. asjr Dec 2014 #17

I think book and music bannings and burnings are a phenomenon that breaks out in different places Dustlawyer Dec 2014 #18

Hitler and Stalin were both guilty of this. Initech Dec 2014 #40

What a wonderful education. Sweeney Dec 2014 #3

The problem with what you said F4lconF16 Dec 2014 #46

This is a well-established practice of at least a century, or more Demeter Dec 2014 #9

Works banned in Boston Demeter Dec 2014 #10

Interesting that you mention Boston Trillo Dec 2014 #22

^^^ Interesting ^^^ SalviaBlue Dec 2014 #39

Don't you insult my Fanny!! Demeter Dec 2014 #41

They don't need intellectuals..... paleotn Dec 2014 #11

Add in fundy religion to the mix and hifiguy Dec 2014 #36

I agree. WHEN CRABS ROAR Dec 2014 #45

"Reality has a known left wing bias", and facts clash with the repuke world view. Simple. on point Dec 2014 #12

Didn't there used to be a really nice library in Alexandria? GliderGuider Dec 2014 #13

+1. nt bemildred Dec 2014 #15

Imagine ...if that had not been destroyed. L0oniX Dec 2014 #29

*repeatedly* (OTOH they had Antikythera-level machines in Byzantium around 500) MisterP Dec 2014 #33

As I recall . . . Jack Rabbit Dec 2014 #51

And murdered Hyapatia, the librarian hifiguy Dec 2014 #55

Fear makes you stupid. bemildred Dec 2014 #14

+1 xchrom Dec 2014 #19

National anthem: Duck and cover. L0oniX Dec 2014 #30

It Can't Happen Here Perseus Dec 2014 #16

The saddest thing I've read this year. Pholus Dec 2014 #20

They also claim its not in the Constitution BobbyBoring Dec 2014 #43

Thanks for posting Omaha Steve Dec 2014 #24

... xchrom Dec 2014 #32

Terrible policies. blackspade Dec 2014 #25

Are they burning them yet? That will be next. Humanity is regressing as well. L0oniX Dec 2014 #27

Give them a little time.... blackspade Dec 2014 #49

Where books are burned hifiguy Dec 2014 #56

Or put them is mass graves..... blackspade Dec 2014 #63

So "A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn" wouldn't be allowed either. L0oniX Dec 2014 #26

K/R marmar Dec 2014 #28

I just started reading about the 19th century America Demeter Dec 2014 #42

we see it every day everywhere and it becomes the new normal . olddots Dec 2014 #31

It simply is just easier to control the ignorant. nt kelliekat44 Dec 2014 #34

The late Richard Hofstadter was railing about this hifiguy Dec 2014 #35

Yep. His book "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life" was required reading The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2014 #44

Shame on Tucson daredtowork Dec 2014 #37

You can see this in the whole STEM circle-jerk. Odin2005 Dec 2014 #38

Scientism? Like what? As a computer engineering major I wonder what you're talking about. alp227 Dec 2014 #54

It's probably more obvious to people coming from the lib arts background Posteritatis Dec 2014 #58

TPTB desire a new generation of automatons, pliable cows easily herded against their own self blkmusclmachine Dec 2014 #47

I live in NW Arkansas, chervilant Dec 2014 #48

Not to argue or even nitpick, but SheilaT Dec 2014 #50

Seems like a leap ... JEFF9K Dec 2014 #52

Good article gopiscrap Dec 2014 #53

America has always... sendero Dec 2014 #57

When does the book-burning start? nikto Dec 2014 #59

I agree.... defacto7 Dec 2014 #60

So... caucasian is not an ethnicity? cui bono Dec 2014 #62

Ignorance is Bliss. Octafish Dec 2014 #64