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America's Embrace of Willful Ignorance

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At first, Snyder explains, the Nazis try to "organize a boycott" against Jewish business. It does not work. But when the Nazis begin to practice marking these businesses "Jewish" and others "Aryan," when they did this, painting the windows of the shops with these markers, it affected "the way Germans thought about household economics," writes Snyder. "A shop marked 'Jewish' had no future." Next on the Nazis' agenda is death!

Why are we surprised climate change deniers exist, let alone are attempting to control the destiny of life on the planet?

American foreign and domestic policies, its social and cultural posture is all about the creation of adversaries. And why? So no one will notice that fascism is here! But w e never learn. To many Americans, learning is the peculiar behavior of the "enemy." It is the "devil's work." The idea of learning (reading history, reading anything other than the Bible) is a threat to a way of life that (as they see it) makes them unique! "Exceptional!" "American!" "Christian!"

Human thought has produced a repertoire of knowledge to enable further generations of humans to evolve and, in the process, to make the most of our existence in this universe. But some of us choose to dwell in darkness. This is a strange reality we find ourselves in, once again, when great men, awarded seats of power, waste no time ordering the markings that divide citizens within while acknowledging the value of dictatorships without. And once again, Americans are embracing willful ignorance as if it were life itself!

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