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发帖数: 7349 | 1 George Orwell, he says, painted a dystopia where the government rewrites
history to control and manipulate the population. “But all you need are ‘
ahistorical’ people who then live in the bubble of the present, and by
fashioning that bubble the government and the media can do anything they
want with them,” Flynn adds.
In other words, our IQs may have risen, but this hasn’t made us any wiser.
“Reading literature and reading history is the only thing that’s going to
capitalise on the IQ gains of the 20th Century and make them politically
relevant.” You may or may not agree, but Flynn is not the only person with
this concern: as William Poundstone shows in his latest book Head In The
Clouds,
everyday ignorance is influencing the way we make decisions in many areas of
our lives. |
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