{"id":14043,"date":"2015-11-01T09:26:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T14:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14043"},"modified":"2015-11-01T09:26:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T14:26:17","slug":"the-anti-knowledge-of-the-elites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14043","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Anti-Knowledge\u2019 of the Elites"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/10\/31\/the-anti-knowledge-of-the-elites\/\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018Anti-Knowledge\u2019 of the Elites<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Exclusive:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s fairly easy to spot the \u201canti-knowledge\u201d spouted by the Tea Party and the Religious Right\u2019s favorite\u00a0candidates, but a more subtle form of reality-deprived \u201cgroup think\u201d pervades America\u2019s elites though it is rarely noted in the polite circles of the mainstream media, writes Mike Lofgren.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/10\/29\/gop-and-the-rise-of-anti-knowledge\/\"><u>In a previous piece<\/u><\/a>, I described how the Republican Party and its ideological allies in the fundamentalist churches have confected a comprehensive media-entertainment complex to attract low-information Americans and turn them into partisans.<\/p>\n<p>The propaganda they are fed has become so disconnected from facts, evidence and logic that it is all too easy to laugh at people operating on demonstrably \u2014 and even ridiculously \u2014 false premises, such as the notion that Barack Obama, born in Hawaii, is not a natural-born American, or that the Sandy Hook school massacre\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/politics\/guns\/newtown.asp\"><u>was an elaborate fake<\/u><\/a>\u00a0designed to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting_conspiracy_theories\"><u>take away the firearms of patriotic Americans<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"image-anchor\" href=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/iraqwarcoffinsdoverafb.jpg?55ac53\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8215\" src=\"http:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/iraqwarcoffinsdoverafb-300x181.jpg?55ac53\" alt=\"Coffins of dead U.S. soldiers arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware in 2006. (U.S. government photo)\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" data-lazy-loaded=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It would be comforting to believe that somewhere in the commanding heights of our permanent government, there are important players who are serious grownups who know what they are doing. That, at least, is the impression they seek to convey with their sober demeanors, credentials from think tanks or prestigious universities, and the measured, almost soporific testimony they deliver to congressional committees.<\/p>\n<p>Think of Robert Gates, Ashton Carter, Timothy Geithner or Eric Holder. On the surface, they seem the very antithesis of the Tea Party fanatic, gibbering about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/austin-miles-obama-letting-isis-set-training-camps-america\"><u>ISIS training camps in America<\/u><\/a>. The preferred pose of these establishment personages is that of the politically neutral technocrat offering well-considered advice based on their profound expertise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Anti-Knowledge\u2019 of the Elites Exclusive:\u00a0It\u2019s fairly easy to spot the \u201canti-knowledge\u201d spouted by the Tea Party and the Religious Right\u2019s favorite\u00a0candidates, but a more subtle form of reality-deprived \u201cgroup think\u201d pervades America\u2019s elites though it is rarely noted in the polite circles of the mainstream media, writes Mike Lofgren. 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