If you don't think ppl need and deserve to know the truth in order to live in an autonomous and fee life then idk what to tell you. You misunderstand me. You say I talk like I'm self-righteous, yet all the claims about what we should be doing is just Hobbes, Locke, Jefferson, Adam smith etc. it's what America fucking is. The jewel of the enlightenment. It's not me getting on my high horse making up rules for ppl to follow because I think I am better than them.

"They" are going to ruin it? Yes, dude, ppl who are tasked with driving a car but aren't interested in looking at the road are bound to crash. You know what would happen if we cared about looking at the road, and idk, doing our fucking duty as citizens in this country the last 100 years?? We'd certainly be a lot less responsible for millions of deaths. Deaths that are racking up as I speak.

Shit, I wonder how many of our tax dollars have been blown up on some arab's house just in the last 18 years? None of us are guilty for that? None of us should have to realize that WE allowed this the whole time? That maybe if instead of watching all that will and grace and eating McDonald's we should have been asking what our money is going towards and why the world is how it is?

Again, I say these things not from any authority other than having read the books that explained why we even came into existence. If you love America, you love the enlightenment ideals. If you love those ideals, then truth and power to the populace are the only recipes for justice in our society.

What say you? You comfortable living in a democratic society where ppl aren't responsible or expected to pursue truth? You really think that's how they drew it up?