Well, Kryten, as the value of an education has been seriously degraded recently by all of the outsourcing that goes on, and it doesn’t take a lot to be able to say “Welcome to WalMart”, people might turn back to the apprenticeship system, as you can’t outsource plumbing.
The basic problem is that people can’t tell the difference between “knowing” and “believing”. The Christianists keep claiming that belief is knowledge which depreciates the value of both.
OT: I don’t think that Hipparchia has resolved all of her technical issues.
]]>Elroon, if they knew Einstein’s history they would really hate him, because he wrote that paper while he was a clerk in the Swiss patent office. They surely couldn’t tolerate a brilliant government bureaucrat. 😉
It would be nice if at least a few “conservatives” owned and used a dictionary from time to time, so they would understand the difference between relativity and relativism, or the meaning of absolute.
As near as I can tell he is accusing Einstein of absolute relativism, while “conservatives” believe in relative absolutism … or some such foolishness [wanders away shaking his head…]
]]>All the blowhard fundies and assorted religious wackos lack intelligence, and even in many cases, education! Learning scares them… (they might discover they are wrong!! Shhhhhh…) It’s sooooooooo much easier to simple believe in something, anything! That requires neither education, or intelligence! In fact, both simply make it harder! 😆
]]>So taking down the icon of confusing overeducated hoity-toity superiority represented by Einstein is an accidental plus. Andrew Schlafly was going after that weird scary word: relativism….
Conservatives don’t need no stinkin’ relativism….
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