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| Author | : Ilya Somin |
| Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2013-10-02 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0804789312 |
One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Often, many people understand that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in learning much about politics. This may be rational, but it creates a nation of people with little political knowledge and little ability to objectively evaluate what they do know. In Democracy and Political Ignorance, Ilya Somin mines the depths of ignorance in America and reveals the extent to which it is a major problem for democracy. Somin weighs various options for solving this problem, arguing that political ignorance is best mitigated and its effects lessened by decentralizing and limiting government. Somin provocatively argues that people make better decisions when they choose what to purchase in the market or which state or local government to live under, than when they vote at the ballot box, because they have stronger incentives to acquire relevant information and to use it wisely.
| Author | : John Mitchinson |
| Publisher | : Crown Archetype |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2007-08-07 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 0307405516 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British bestseller. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more,The Book of General Ignorance is a witty “gotcha” compendium of how little we actually know about anything. It’ll have you scratching your head wondering why we even bother to go to school. Think Magellan was the first man to circumnavigate the globe, baseball was invented in America, Henry VIII had six wives, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain? Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again. You’ll be surprised at how much you don’t know! Check out The Book of General Ignorance for more fun entries and complete answers to the following: How long can a chicken live without its head? About two years. What do chameleons do? They don’t change color to match the background. Never have; never will. Complete myth. Utter fabrication. Total Lie. They change color as a result of different emotional states. How many legs does a centipede have? Not a hundred. How many toes has a two-toed sloth? It’s either six or eight. Who was the first American president? Peyton Randolph. What were George Washington’s false teeth made from? Mostly hippopotamus. What was James Bond’s favorite drink? Not the vodka martini.
| Author | : Christina Boswell |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2023-12-31 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1009410180 |
Traces how different European states have produced knowledge - and cultivated ignorance - about irregular migrants on their territories.
| Author | : J. Tom Morgan |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| Release | : 2007-01-01 |
| Genre | : Children's rights |
| ISBN | : 9780979662515 |
| Author | : Daniel R. DeNicola |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2017-08-18 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0262036444 |
Ignorance is trending. Politicians boast, "I'm not a scientist." Angry citizens object to a proposed state motto because it is in Latin, and "This is America, not Mexico or Latin America." Lack of experience, not expertise, becomes a credential. Fake news and repeated falsehoods are accepted and shape firm belief. Ignorance about American government and history is so alarming that the ideal of an informed citizenry now seems quaint. Conspiracy theories and false knowledge thrive. This may be the Information Age, but we do not seem to be well informed. In this book, philosopher Daniel DeNicola explores ignorance -- its abundance, its endurance, and its consequences.
| Author | : Rik Peels |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2016-12-22 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1107175607 |
The book provides a thorough exploration of the epistemic dimensions of ignorance: what is ignorance and what are its varieties?
| Author | : John Lloyd |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2011-10-11 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 0307951766 |
From the brains behind the New York Times' bestseller, The Book of General Ignorance comes another wonderful collection of the most outrageous, fascinating, and mind-bending facts, taking on the hugely popular form of the first book in the internationally bestselling series. Just when you thought that it was safe to start showing off again, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson are back with another busload of mistakes and misunderstandings. Here is a new collection of simple, perfectly obvious questions you'll be quite certain you know the answers to. Whether it's history, science, sports, geography, literature, language, medicine, the classics, or common wisdom, you'll be astonished to discover that everything you thought you knew is still hopelessly wrong. For example, do you know who made the first airplane flight? How many legs does an octopus have? How much water should you drink every day? What is the chance of tossing a coin and it landing on heads? What happens if you leave a tooth in a glass of Coke overnight? What is house dust mostly made from? What was the first dishwasher built to do? What color are oranges? Who in the world is most likely to kill you? Whatever your answers to the questions above, you can be sure that everything you think you know is wrong. The Second Book of General Ignorance is the essential text for everyone who knows they don't know everything, and an ideal stick with which to beat people who think they do.
| Author | : Roy Dilley |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2015-10-01 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1782388397 |
Non-knowledge should not be simply regarded as the opposite of knowledge, but as complementary to it: each derives its character and meaning from the other and from their interaction. Knowledge does not colonize the space of ignorance in the progressive march of science; rather, knowledge and ignorance are mutually shaped in social and political domains of partial, shifting, and temporal relationships. This volume’s ethnographic analyses provide a theoretical frame through which to consider the production and reproduction of ignorance, non-knowledge, and secrecy, as well as the wider implications these ideas have for anthropology and related disciplines in the social sciences and humanities.
| Author | : A. J. Angulo |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2016-04 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1421419319 |
By investigating how laws, myths, national aspirations, and global relations have recast and, at times, distorted the key purposes of education, this pathbreaking book sheds light on the role of ignorance in shaping ideas, public opinion, and policy.--Robert N. Proctor, author of Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition "Historical Studies in Education/Revue d'histoire de l'éducation"
| Author | : Roy Olivier |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2014-01-16 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0190257431 |
Olivier Roy, world-renowned authority on Islam and politics, finds in the modern disconnection between faith communities and socio-cultural identities a fertile space for fundamentalism to grow. Instead of freeing the world from religion, secularization has encouraged a kind of holy ignorance to take root, an anti-intellectualism that promises immediate, emotional access to the sacred and positions itself in direct opposition to contemporary pagan culture. The secularization of society was supposed to free people from religion, yet individuals are converting en masse to fundamentalist faiths, such as Protestant evangelicalism, Islamic Salafism, and Haredi Judaism. These religions either reconnect adherents to their culture through casual referents, like halal fast food, or maintain their momentum through purification rituals, such as speaking in tongues, a practice that allows believers to utter a language that is entirely their own. Instead of a return to traditional religious worship, we are now witnessing the individualisation of faith and the disassociation of faith communities from ethnic and national identities. Roy explores the options now available to powers that hope to integrate or control these groups; and whether marginalisation or homogenisation will further divide believers from their culture.
