Enlightenment dies when authoritarianism rears it's ugly head, and that's by design. You can't have stupid throngs of submissive and yet violent masses without #antiintellectualism .
#Polish people talk about how the #nazi occupation would persecute their intellectuals, to subvert the Polish expert class. That's also how the colonizers and slavers destroyed Africa.
They don't come for the #guns first, they come for the experts, the #literature and #acedemia
https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=YKSyWqcKing
Thor A. Hopland
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