re: #144 Renaissance_Man

The Murdoch press. That, more than anything else, is responsible for the degeneration of Western civilisation and democracy. There is a direct, dose-related correlation.

They drove it, but it could not have taken root as it has if we better educated our children on how to deal with media, government and science.

It was the attitude that education is another “business expense” to be minimized instead of looking on it as an investment in society. That started under Reagan and continued apace ever since then.