• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
    28·
    2 months ago

    It has its drawbacks.

    “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”

    ― Isaac Asimov

    • BestBouclettes
      8·
      2 months ago

      Democracy only works properly with good access to factual information and good education.

      • problematicPanther@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        which is why in America, certain parties are proposing banning books and cutting funding to education. They want to make sure their base stays stupid enough to vote for them.

        • BestBouclettes
          4·
          2 months ago

          Also why billionaires and industrials bought out so many different media over the years.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 months ago

    I prefer Parenti’s quote on democracy

    Democracy is a wonderful invention by the people over history to protect themselves from the power of wealth. That’s what democracy was in Greece, that’s what democracy has been ever since. It’s an invention of the people, nobody else but the people. There’s no great philosopher that invented democracy, there’s no great political theorist that thought about it and put it together, there’s no great intellectual or writer or artist who created democracy! It was the mass of people! Anonymous, ordinary working people, working women and working men, people trying to survive, they’re the ones that fought for it and they’re the ones that gained whatever modicum of decency and security we might have in this inhumane capitalist system throughout history.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
    108·
    2 months ago

    He’s right but fuck Chomsky sideways with a running rusted chainsaw for being a genocide denier and a red washed realist as bad as Kissenger.

        • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          2 months ago

          Also playing apologist for the Khmer Rouge, and urging Ukraine to give up to Russia’s “legitimate security concerns”.

      • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
        61·
        2 months ago

        TIL being tired of white kids using your people’s struggle as an excuse to refuse doing the bare minimum to reduce harm is genocide denial.

        Motherfucker you just pulled up on the side of people trying to justify letting it get worse. Sit the hell down.

      • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Because not stopping a roll towards a wall is exactly the same as hitting the fucking accelerator.

        Your politics would see us Palestinians all massacred on the altar of “well the dems would have been the same anyways!”

        Doesn’t sound much like genocide denial.