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Quote from Robert A. Heinlein,

"[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously—after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth."



By:

Robert A. Heinlein (more quotes by Robert A. Heinlein or books by/about Robert A. Heinlein)


(1907-1988) American writer

Source:

To Sail Beyond the Sunset, 1987

ISBN-10:

0441748600

Amazon Img URL:

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Categories:

Media, Politics, Reason

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