My mother was one of the most ignorant people I’ve ever known. Clueless, uneducated, proud of it, assured she was right about everything.
I remember her cursing her bad teeth due to lack of fluoridation in Depression-era West Virginia. I remember her telling me what a miracle the polio vaccine was, and how scared she was a child before it came along.
One time I asked my great-great-aunt, an old woman living on a Civil War-era farm, why the moon was round. She explained gravity and how it pulls the moon into a sphere.
And somehow, it this wondrous age of free information, we’ve collectively become more ignorant than these people. And it fucking enrages me.
My mother was one of the most ignorant people I’ve ever known. Clueless, uneducated, proud of it, assured she was right about everything.
I remember her cursing her bad teeth due to lack of fluoridation in Depression-era West Virginia. I remember her telling me what a miracle the polio vaccine was, and how scared she was a child before it came along.
One time I asked my great-great-aunt, an old woman living on a Civil War-era farm, why the moon was round. She explained gravity and how it pulls the moon into a sphere.
And somehow, it this wondrous age of free information, we’ve collectively become more ignorant than these people. And it fucking enrages me.