For the all the talk in the pagan/occult community about multi-culturalism, far too many see culture in the abstract, not something that involves real people, which I think fuels this idiocy. I want to try to be fair, because I can't blame the ignorant who fall for such things, and the state of education in the US is awful, and too many average history textbooks are decades out of date with the latest research, and the state of the mass media compounds the problem. It's a complex problem that won't be easily solved any time soon. So if people want less ignorance and less anti-intellectualism, they're going to have to fight to get the states bailed out, not mega corporations, and to democratize the media. I may be digressing, but I like looking at the root of the problem, or at least as many as I am aware of.
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Date: 8 Mar 2011 03:21 am (UTC)