No such thing has ever existed. Nobody on Earth has ever _wanted_ to be dumb. Friedrich was on the laudanum bottle when he wrote this one.
Nietzsche got at it this way:
"A sign of strong character, when once the resolution has been taken, to shut the ear even to the best counter- arguments. Occasionally, therefore, a will to stupidity". --FN Beyond Good and Evil--
I suspect Americans like Canadians are wilfully ignorant and that it serves to nip any cognitive dissonance in the bud. That is, the people are complicit. It takes a whole nation to get to Nuremberg!
Travis
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Then, as I asked Yoshie, why bother with leftism? If people prefer benightedness to light and information, why spend your time trying to figure out how to get the information and light through the system? I suspect you don't actually believe your own BS. Or do you have a will to stupidity?