A John Cleese YouTube clip making the rounds mentions that a person needs a certain level of knowledge and self-awareness to realize if he or she is ignorant. (He uses the word stupid, but I will be kinder.) His point is that some people are too ignorant to know they are ignorant, and that many such people seem to exert a heavy influence in our culture through the media and news. It is funny and oh, so sad.
worse they a proud of their ignorance as if it were a bent status symbol.
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