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 anymore? Not in the view of the politically correct. What are they then? Just "low on information." Folks who didn't vote for Barrack Obama because he is a Muslim and born in Africa, for example, aren't ignorant cretins. They were just low on information. When Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that a Rothschild-financed Jewish space laser deliberately ignited those devastating fires in California, she wasn't being a bigoted ignoramus. Nor was she feeding vote-garnering bullshit to the clueless. Her information was simply deficient. 

How deliciously nonjudgmental this is. No one is too stupid, lazy, dogmatic, dishonest or emotionally needy to discover actual facts. They are simply "less informed." It's like being left handed as opposed to 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. Yes, for the mentally deficient, ignorance is acquired. But what about the person of normal 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 for sinister purposes. That sort of ignorance must surely be achieved.

Given a mountain of unambiguous evidence to the contrary, isn't such ignorance the believer's responsibility?  Isn't he or she accountable for embracing such obvious bullshit? No. not from this politically correct point of view. For these extremely enlightened folk, there are no willful ignoramuses, no dogmatic true believers, no mental sloths. There is just then"information deficient." 

Worse still, the most politically correct have constructed an even less judgmental view. As described above, there are no ignoramuses, no blockheads, no dogmatists. Not a one! But in this even more enlightened view, there are just people who are "differently informed." If they insist the earth is a mere 6,000 years old? That's fine!  A 6,000 year old earth is just as good as science's 4.6 billion when you're "differently informed." 

Yes, 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 unknowingly relying on the authority of the late Bishop Ussher. He's the 17th Century Church of Ireland prelate who meticulously added all the generations of the Bible, cranked in all post-Biblical generations, and calculated that creation took place at 6 pm, 23 October, 4004 BC. (He was a bit uncertain about the exact time of day.) Is the Bishop's reckoning just as good as centuries of painstaking scientific investigation? Sure, if you hold that the findings of science are co-equal to counting the generations of the Bible. In the painfully non-judgmental view of the very politically correct, every reality is just "differently informed. How come?" Because no authority is better, no information more valid, than any other.

 
How far does this feverishly nonjudgmental crap take them? They end up in a world where truth and fact are 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, it's my bet that the vast majority of these super tolerant individuals will still seek refuge in the authoritative knowledge of medical science. 

So what are the implications of this metastasizing super "tolerance" for the processes and purposes of schooling? Here's what it adds up to. Such uncontrolled tolerance will lay waste to both schooling's processes and purposes. No knowledge will be left. Everything will be a mere matter of opinion. And with every opinion being just as good as any other, truth and objective reality have utterly disappeared. And at that point it comes down to this: "Schooling? We don't need no stinkin schooling!"