People, I swear, know less than they did when I was 30. Too many people function like bedazzled children, gawping at an incomprehensible world, without any rudimentary knowledge with which they could usefully interpret anything, and no hooks with which they could make associations and integrate new learning. Like fElontRump staring at the eclipse. Like everyone repeating nonsense about nuclear power, or wind&solar, Like every anti-choice, every anti-vax, every small-government austerity tax-cut knuckle-dragger.
The clue that this was coming was in people’s “personal” religious beliefs. You meet someone who claims to be a christian, or “spiritual” or some crap. And what you realize is that they have just made up some dip-shitty Frankenstein’s monster of half-baked philosophies/mythologies from some fragmentary misunderstanding of their vague Sunday-school indoctrination. Where they have picked and chosen ideas, with no context, because they “feel right” to them.
And that can never be how knowing stuff works.
