THE END OF IGNORANCE? sure, if you're politically correct

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

No one is ignorant, even flat wrong, in the world of the politically correct. They're just "differently informed." Folks who voted for Donald Trump because Barrack Obama is an African-born Muslim, for example, weren't block-heads, just "differently informed" by "alternative facts." When Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested a Rothschild-financed Jewish space laser might well be igniting those devastating wildfires in California, she too wasn't neither stunningly ignorant nor engaged in hate-mongering demagoguery. She too was merely "differently informed," by "alternative facts."

How deliciously nonjudgmental this is. No assertion is too ridiculous, too obviously laughable, to be rejected. It's just "differently informed." Informed by what? "By whatever authority some nincompoop happen to subscribe to. It's like being left instead of right handed. There's no fault involved, no personal responsibility, no right nor wrong. Just different, equally valid, conceptions of reality. 

The truly "woke" refuse to acknowledge that some sources of authority are far more reliable than others. They also deny that ignorance is often an achieved trait. Yes, of course, ignorance is acquired if you are mentally retarded. But not if you are a person of normal intelligence. For instance, someone of normal intelligence adamantly insists on the patently ridiculous idea that the condensation trails of planes flying at high altitude are actually "chemtrails" containing harmful substances being released by one or another villain for sinister purposes. This abysmal ignorance is achieved; and ultimately is the believer's responsibility.  

Normal individuals are wholly accountable for eagerly embracing puerile buncombe. But not from the politically correct point of view. Is this world there are no ignoramuses, no blockheads, no dimwits, no willful cretins. Not a one! In this fault free world if you insist the earth is a mere 6,000 years old, not the scientifically affirmed 4.6 billion, for example, you're not way, way, way off. You're not utterly wrong. You're just "differently informed." 

In this Alice in Wonderland world any and all sources are authoritative if you think them to be so. When born-again true believers adamantly insist that the earth is 6,000 years old, for instance, they are likely unknowingly relying on the cranky calculations of the late Bishop Ussher, a 17th Century Church of Ireland prelate. He was the fellow who famously added up all the generations of the Bible, cranked in every post-Biblical generation he could identify, and gravely concluded that creation took place at 6 pm, 23 October, 4004 BC. (He admitted a bit of uncertainty about the exact time of day.) Was he correct? No, he was as full of crap as a Christmas turkey. But not for those "differently informed."

Is the late Bishop's reckoning actually just as good, perhaps better, than several centuries of scientific investigation? Only if you maintain that several centuries of rigorous scientific investigation are inerior to the computations of a scientifically illiterate, faith-blinded, 17th century dogmatist. Yet in the wacky view of the most politically correct, any version of reality, however hare-brained, is just as good as any other. 

How far does this alternative reality take them? The most zealous end up in a world where truth and fact are totally inoperative. Where the scientific method is coequal with the crystal ball readings of store-front gypsies and the  self-enriching ramblings of flimflamming televangelists. Yet, In the world of the most politically correct, the earth is flat if you believe it to be so. 

What are the implications of this toxic "tolerance" for the processes and purposes of schooling? It is that their unhinged tolerance lays waste to both. With the search for truth abandoned, with knowledge a mere matter of opinion, with every viewpoint as good as every other, true education evaporates and a wishy washy indulgence takes over. This results in something like this: "Schoolin? Nobody needs no stinkin schoolin!"