re: #116 The Ghost of a Flea

In turn, there’s a vast body of end-users of culture that don’t know how to question the assumptions they’ve been raised to think of as a priori true, who feel threatened by skepticism or critique.

Witnessed in the vehement RW objections to education reform (Common Core) and programs that require and encourage critical analysis (International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement), plus science (evolution, climate change). Any kind of education that challenges their worldview must be attacked and discredited. When they uniformly want is a return to education as it was in the 19th century frontier schools, with McGuffy readers and daily Bible lessons, and most importantly, segregated classrooms.