After they win...

[Dennis Breslin]

> This is certainly true.  Americans' ignorance is much connected with the
> nation's fabulous, self-renewing, much-proclaimed sense of "innocence" --
> perhaps better defined as clinical narcissism.  Americans' will to
ignorance
> reminds me of the degree of stupidity that Samuel Johnson once ascribed to
> one of his nemeses:  "Why, Sir, Sherry is dull, naturally dull; but it
must
> have taken him a great deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such
an
> excess of stupidity, Sir, is not in Nature."
>
> Carl

Phew, for a moment there I thought you were gonna be smug.

Dennis