Clive Thompson gives us a word for our times:
Agnotology: Culturally constructed ignorance, purposefully created by special interest groups working hard to create confusion and suppress the truth.
Agnotology: Culturally constructed ignorance, purposefully created by special interest groups working hard to create confusion and suppress the truth.
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This explains why "low information" voters have been shown to actually understand candidate positions better than "high information" voters.
They didn't get "stupidified" to the same degree.
It's good to know the word at the heart of the fall of the republic.
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