Being Educated, Or At Least Wanting To

MY ILLITERATE, LARGE MOUTHED FRIEND at the senior center, the one I told you about who tries to shove religion down everybody's throat and who I suspect of being a retired hit man for Whitey Bulger in Boston back in the day, walked up to me the other day, and apologized for calling me an "educated idiot". He said the Lord told him to do it, naturally. Whatever goof ball dude does, the Lord told him to do it. He has no independent judgment in lieu of the Lord, which, on balance, is probably best for us all. The apology was a good start, particularly since it is probably the only thing of value I will ever get from this knucklehead. I remember trying to explain to him that people with PhDs, like me, are not idiots, we are the opposite of idiots, which is what we went to school to for. Among true American idiots today, such as my illiterate friend, and say, Rush Limbaugh, there is a distinct bias against and animus for science and education. Right wingers who went to work and on to family raising after high school never stop trying to ridicule well educated academicians, ivory tower eggheads, out of touch with the real world, you've heard it. That's because overwhelmingly, ivory tower intellectuals tend to be liberal, the more intelligent and educated, the more liberal, as a rule. Conservatives can't stand this. They resent and envy the intelligence and education of liberals. Rush Limbaugh, who never passed a single class in his two short semesters in college, considers himself educated, and indeed, a genius. I've got news for him. Actually Rush is plenty intelligent, but not sufficiently educated. If he went to college right now, and kept at it until he had a double major doctorate in American history and political science, he would be a much more potent and impressive man, intellectually. But of course, people like Rush don't think they need to learn anything more, don't think anybody else can teach them anything more, because they already know it all. My illiterate friend, who truly cannot read one letter, is absolutely convinced that he is just fine and dandy the way he is now. Why should he bother to learn to read, when he can listen to the Bible, the only book that matters? however, as all educated people know, nobody is good enough now, we all require more education, and the moment we stop realizing this, the moment our Intellectual stagnation and death begins. My illiterate fried and Rush Limbaugh are both deceiving themselves, on purpose, too afraid to accept and come to terms with their own glaring inadequacies. But of course you already knew that, because you are educated, or at least you want to be----------------------THE MORE WE SHARE THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS, THE MORE WE KNOW, THE MORE WE UNDERSTAND. PLEASE SHARE THIS SITE WITH OTHERS! THANKS!