Honestly, my most salient worry (and also my first concern in my professional life) is what that collapse is actually going to look like. Does US military capacity collapse faster or slower than the failure of the American state? If there is a discontinuity, is it a function of weeks, or years? There is the spectre of a US industrial-military complex (to use Eisenhower’s term) lashing out to secure what it needs to survive one day more.
This is perhaps an academic question in Europe, but somewhat more immediate in Canada and Mexico,
The problem is ignorance is perceived as an insult which it isn’t. This is because the ignorant believe they can have an opinion on everything despite being ignorant on the subject of their opinion.
Too many just follow any old jerk on the internet or tele. Just look at America and Trump.
Ignorance is too dangerous to be ignored.
Anyone insisting that it’s their opinion and it should be respected falls into that dangerous area of ignorance.
I agree and disagree.
I agree that there are many people who make a judgement without being fully informed. Being stubborn to these views despite conflicting information is a form of ignorance.
However, ignorance is also played out in or on opinions, where there is no definitive answer. As a society we are too quick to categorise people because their views may not align with our own and dismiss them, stereotype them and see everything through a black and white spectrum.
This is also a form of Ignorance, believing your opinion is correct and holds more value than someone else’s.
You refer to Trump and America and at the same time say “Ignorance is too dangerous to be ignored” are we not guilty of ignoring our own ignorance.
I mean why has Trump been elected twice? Why is RW to Far Right politics on the rise globally? Why does it look like the UK will vote Farage/Reform in at the next election, despite them being seen as racist and having no policy/mandate?
I’d prefer ill-informed if your going to nit pick.
However I would stress that someone ill or un informed is ignorant. If they then continue to ‘push it’ they are clearly much worst and become a cunt!
Take Trump and his claims of being a COVID expert. This is another level and gets to fucking cunt levels.
In part because they have gutted the administrative part of the system resulting in an enormous backlog of cases that the admin just doesn’t have the capacity to process. There was a case a few weeks ago where a DHS lawyer broke down in court acknowledging the judge’s criticism of the lack of timeliness of the administration’s responses and pleaded to be held in contempt just so she could have a couple of days off. DHS promptly fired her.
If you understand the detention facilities as being incredible money makers for companies owned by very well connected people who donate big sums to the GOP, some of this policy makes more sense
