"It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance."

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Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.

— Kurt Vonnegut