It would be wonderful if we lived in a culture devoid of illogic and hypocrisy, where ignorance and emotional reactivity were not traits conditioned by media and handed down from one increasingly diminished generation to another. In such a culture, the populace would be well-informed and powerfully independent, nearly impervious to propaganda, and unafraid to speak the truth as they believe it in their hearts. But this is not the culture we live in. Not by a damn long country mile.
