"Fox News instills in its
viewers a formidable distaste for critical thinking. It encourages dogmatism
while discouraging curiosity. It teaches people to care more about 'what' a
belief says about the world than 'why' one should accept it. It propagates what
philosophers would describe as bad epistemology.
"This is incredibly dangerous
to our country’s future because critical thinking is the intellectual backbone
of every functioning democracy. The fact that Trump is leading a pack of
truth-challenged White House hopefuls is unambiguous evidence that our
democracy is not functioning properly. A dysfunctional democracy is, of course,
exactly what Fox News wants, for the obvious reason that it makes controlling
the masses of cognitively stunted voters much easier. But then Trump rolled in
from left field with his billions of dollars and charismatic authoritarianism
and quickly filled the vacuum of ignorance, fear and gullibility that Fox News
and its media cohorts had diligently carved out for the past seven years." — Phil Torres
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