IS THIS THE END OF IGNORANCE?

"In the age of information, ignorance is a choice." Donald Miller

Have you noticed that  no one is ignorant in the world of the politically correct?  They're only "differently informed." Folks who voted against Barrack Obama because they believed he is a Muslim born in Africa, for example, weren't misinformed, but differently informed by alternative "facts." When Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that a Rothschild-financed Jewish space laser might be igniting those devastating fires in California, she too was differently informed. 

How deliciously nonjudgmental this is. No one is too stupid, lazy, dogmatic, dishonest or emotionally needy to look up actual facts. They are simply "differently informed." It's like being left handed instead of right handed! There's no fault involved, no personal responsibility. They're just — that way. 

The politically correct refuse to accept the fact that ignorance is often an achieved trait. Sure, ignorance is acquired state if you are mentally deficient. But what about the person of normal mental capacity who still adamantly insists on the patently ridiculous? For instance, that the condensation trails of planes flying at high altitude are actually "chemtrails" containing harmful substances released by, say, the "deep state" for sinister purposes. Might that level of ignorance be achieved? And isn't believing it the believer's responsibility?  Surely he or she must be accountable for embracing such obvious bullshit.  

Nope, not from the politically correct point of view, For them there are no ignoramuses, no blockheads, no dogmatists. Not a one! If you insist the earth is a mere 6,000 years old, rather than the scientifically calculated 4.6 billion, that's fine! You're not way, way off and terribly wrong. You're just "differently informed." In this Alice in Wonderland world, no authority is superior. When born-again true believers adamantly insist that the earth is 6,000 years old, for example, they're probably relying on the calculations of Bishop Ussher. He was the 17th Century Church of Ireland prelate who meticulously added up all the generations of the Bible, cranked in every post-Biblical generation, and determined that creation took place at 6 pm, 23 October, 4004 BC. (He apparently was a bit uncertain about that exact time of day.) 

Is the Bishop's reckoning just as good, perhaps better, than several centuries of painstaking scientific investigation? Sure, if you hold that the findings of science are no better than the nonsensical natterings of an outdated, faith-blinded prelate. In the ridiculously non-judgmental view of the very politically correct, any version of reality, however hare brained, is merely "differently informed." In their world no authority is better, no information more valid, than another. 

How far does this feverishly nonjudgmental crap take them? The most extreme end up in a world where truth and fact are utterly inoperative. Where the scientific method is passé. Where the earth is actually flat if you think it is. But should they discover they have a potentially fatal disease, you can bet the vast majority of these super tolerant individuals will still seek refuge in medical science, not holistic quacks, bunko artist faith healers, and the like. 

What are the implications of this toxic "tolerance" for the processes and purposes of schooling? Their unchecked tolerance lays waste to both. With objective knowledge gone, with everything a mere matter of opinion, with every opinion as good as any other, truth and objective reality disappear entirely. And, at this point, their cankered "tolerance" logically reduces to something like this: "Schoolin? We don't need no stinkin schoolin!"