Hedges on Anti-Intellectualism

One of the most remarkable (and befuddling) facets of our times is how millions of Americans willfully accept the limitations imposed on them by the rich and powerful. As the new Congress preps to make tax cuts for the highest earners in the U.S. a permanent reality, the simple-minded right spews its ignorant anti-intellectual rhetoric, allowing rich assholes like Rand Paul and John Boehner to entrench themselves as leaders of the corporate state.

How ordinary people assume this helps their position in life remains a great mystery.

Until people awaken to the fact that these men have only their own interests and the interests of their rich friends in mind, and not the interests of all Americans, our long slide into dissolution will continue.

Here is the brilliant Chris Hedges discussing how universities stifle dissent and play the corporate game.


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