Friday, June 29, 2018

More wisdom from Frank Sheed

The general ignorance of domestic and foreign problems may be no greater today than in the past, but it is complicated for us by one new factor. Everyone reads digests, sees films, listens to radio commentators: so that people have the illusion that they know everything, whereas they have only heard of everything. Not only that. They have views about things on which they lack the elements of knowledge—not their own views, but acquired by some convincing writer or speaker.

—Frank Sheed
from Society and Sanity: Understanding How to Live Well Together

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