Despite having more information at our fingertips (literally!) than ever before, we truly seem to be in the midst of a new Age of Unenlightenment. Check out this short-but-sweet blog post by Paul Krugman in which he calls out a Washington Post journalist for claiming that government debt is currently at a historically-unheard-of height. It's almost comical how uninformed some of the loudest voices are these days.
I always used to say, in situations like this, "Don't suspect a conspiracy when simple incompetence will explain it all away." But I'm starting to think that some of this ignorance may actually be anything but. It's beginning to seem pretty willful, at the very least.
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