tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876532433010359117.post2730354122162654386..comments2023-11-26T16:14:24.517-06:00Comments on The iHandbill: KKK to Tea Parties: Communicating with the Ignorant and AngryLarry Ray . . .http://www.blogger.com/profile/02618317248511017230noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876532433010359117.post-82614229119333892052010-03-28T10:44:59.905-05:002010-03-28T10:44:59.905-05:00good column Camille Kenneygood column Camille KenneyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6876532433010359117.post-64033034491217649312009-09-16T13:44:06.382-05:002009-09-16T13:44:06.382-05:00Reading your remarks today, September 16th, filled...Reading your remarks today, September 16th, filled me with a strange mixture of feelings, which included that unique, joy-related thrill when one hears or reads an accurate description of reality both well-reasoned and well-expressed, but also included that dull, heavy weight of grief that this is the way things actually are, and furious frustration at the self-perpetuating nature of the arrogance of ignorance. It isn't only poverty that results in ignorance. So does the easy escape from reasoned analysis through relying on images and feelings because doing so requires little-or-no effort, and provides the immediate gratification of allowing us to remain in the safe and familiar comfort zone of our own lack of awareness. In this age of technology and mass media, it somehow has become even more malignant that we do not know what we do not know, and, not knowing, we are satisfied. But now we are not only satisfied, we have become arrogant in our ignorance and contemptuous of those who rely on rational thought and reasoned discourse. And the apparent impotence of the rational against those who now use technology and electronic mass media both to organize and broadcast their emotion-based, arrogant ignorance may yet be the harbinger of the end of American democracy. <br /><br />Keep up your fine work. You are a delight to read.<br /><br />Stephen RundquistAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com