"But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriouslyâafter all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is importantâŚso his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth."
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Chapter 24, âDecline and Fallâ (pp. 370-371)
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Robert A. Heinlein
writer, screenwriter, literary critic
1907 â 1988 ¡ United States
Robert Anson Heinlein (7 July 1907 – 8 May 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of science fiction of the 20th Century.
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