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Originally Posted by Tyler
42% of Canadians probably realize how little relevance knowing this would affect their daily lives.
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There is not much in this world that irritates me more than people who frown upon such "useless information".
I got news for you bud, "use" does not have a monopoly on value when it comes to information.
It's the same type of people who wonder why I'm getting a philosophy degree. "What are you going to do with philosophy?" Well, I'm going to be a more educated person when it's all said and done. "But what kind of job is that going to get you?"
It's just mind boggling how so many people can't wrap their heads around knowledge as not simply a means to an end but as an end in itself.
"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man." -Russell