You heard that Iraq represented an existential threat to the United States, and YOU BELIEVED IT?
You heard that Brexit was the end of the world as we know it, and YOU BELIEVED IT?
You heard that Russia's invasion of Ukraine was the first step in Vladimir Putin's quest for world domination, and YOU BELIEVED IT?
You heard that Israel had "no choice" but to commit genocide in Gaza because Hamas represents an existential threat to Israel's survival, and YOU BELIEVED IT?
What will you believe next? That an invasion from Mars is under way?
I believe, with Lionel Trilling, that there is a moral obligation to be intelligent. The hard work of thinking involves questioning claims: it is a form of intellectual self-defense that saves me the eventual embarrassment of discovering that I spent my life booking passage on a Ship of Fools.
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