re: #79 celticdragon

I’m talking about the deliberate, self inflicted ignorance of much of the population where untestable religious certainty outweighs empiricism in increasing amounts over time. Not through a time of imperial collapse and invasion, but during prosperity and readily available educational resources.

I can’t really think of anything like it. We are literally, as a nation, making ourselves more superstitious, less educated and overtly proud of our ignorance. The kicker is that technology is being used to spread teh dumb…

Copernicus and Gallileo got into all kinds of trouble with the church; is that the sort of thing you’re looking for? (in 1992, Pope John Paul II finally admitted publicly that Gallileo was right).