"Widespread ignorance bordering on idiocy is our new national goal. ... The ideal citizen of a politically corrupt state, such as the one we now have, is a gullible dolt unable to tell truth from bullshit. An educated, well-informed population, the kind that a functioning democracy requires, would be difficult to lie to, and could not be led by the nose by the various vested interests running amok in this country."
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Poets from the United StatesEditors from the United StatesPoets from New HampshireTranslators from the United StatesPoets from Serbia
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"Age of Ignorance" New York Review of Books, March 20, 2012
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