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If the wing-nuts would only fear what really needs to be feared..... (Original Post) Playinghardball Jul 2013 OP
More likely, they'll curse us. silverweb Jul 2013 #1
If they could tell the difference, they wouldn't be wingnuts Warpy Jul 2013 #2
Will there be any historians fifty years from now? AdHocSolver Jul 2013 #3
Exactly. To those who are more afraid of anything Cha Jul 2013 #4

Warpy

(111,277 posts)
2. If they could tell the difference, they wouldn't be wingnuts
Sat Jul 27, 2013, 06:26 PM
Jul 2013

Face it, about a third of the people in this land of the free are irretrievably stupid.

The people we need to motivate are the other two thirds.

AdHocSolver

(2,561 posts)
3. Will there be any historians fifty years from now?
Sat Jul 27, 2013, 08:51 PM
Jul 2013

Or, will humanity consist of a remnant subsisting as hunter-gatherers.

Human history seems to swing back and forth between advances in science, technology, and the arts only to be dragged down by a corrupt group of ignorant plutocratic knaves and charlatans often aided and abetted by a gaggle of hypocritical religious zealots.

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