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On this date in 1971 the last episode of Hogan’s Heroes aired. It was a television comedy set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War 2. The series started in 1965 and ran for 6 years with a total of 168 episodes.
As a counterpoint to Edmund Burke and George Santayana, let me start with an admonition: Those destined to repeat history are first doomed to forget it. A while back I wrote an article warning of the insidious dangers of state propaganda, especially when augmented by the grinding mediocrities of a government school system, the steady drone of a compliant press, and the in sync idols of popular culture.
Here's the question. why would they plead ignorance? is this to be able to say well, we're not completely stupid, but we're not steinst scientists, so therefore we're covered. we don't have to have a position. what's the strategist of being dumb? >> i think you heard some of the politicians like speaker boehner move from the fact to saying they deny the science to say oh, we're not a scientist. but i don't think the american public is going to put up with that. because as you said it's a know-nothing position. the reality is that people are hungry for serious solutions to serious problems. and...
Rising. here's the question. why would they plead ignorance? is this to be able to say well, we're not completely stupid, but we're not steinst scientists, so therefore we're covered. we don't have to have a position. what's the strategist of being dumb? >> i think you heard some of the politicians like speaker boehner move from the fact to saying they deny the science to say oh, we're not a scientist. but i don't think the american public is going to put up with that. because as you said it's a know-nothing position. the reality is that people are hungry for serious solutions to serious probl...
They don't know the connection between guns and gun violence. they don't know the difference between voter suppression and the problem of minorities. they don't know the exploitation of cheap loy boar and the flow of illegal immigration into this country. they don't know the connection between co2 emissions and climate change, like sergeant shu shultz in "hogan's heroes." it's the same on issues one after the other, i know nothing. i know nothing. how easy it must be to write the platform of the republican party heading into the next presidential election. think how few words they will need, j...