Mikel 🇺🇦 @mikelking.com · Jul 2 When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. ~ Issac Asimov #ThoughtfulThursday
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. Indeed.
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I feel that threat everyday
Too bad Asimov was a sexual predator. He regularly sexually assaulted women. Maybe not the best person to quote anymore.
I think it was Voltaire who said: those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
See also: Cambodia
Yes
Ignorance is strength.
So true
Nevertheless, hold on to your intelligence.
Asimov was wise as humans can be.
Got that right.🙄
It's also frustrating. I'm continually amazed at the lack of intelligence in the vast majority of humans. Willfully ignorant, fearful, poorly informed, poorly educated, drug and alcohol addled. We are doomed. Humans are devolving. We reached our peak I'm afraid in America.
But dumb as shit to play dumb.
Great quote Mikel!
A wise man and great writer.
Truer words were never spoken! Happened in China too!
Have you ever been made fun of for being smart? You know what I’m talking about.
Story of my life….lol
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I know some pretty patriotic people, who are completely safe
And We have SO MANY STUPID People in this Country, Mostly in the White House and Congress(R)
Especially now.
The intelligent do not cower, but are active. Only the weak divide, the intelligent unite
That’s Trump, Republican lawmakers & MAGA!
What the US has is a concerted effort to degrade the public education system in a systematic plan to create “willful ignorance” and bury the lessons of history. Combined with the destruction of the doctrine that church and state are separate. This is what of founding fathers feared most. Unsafe? YES
Well then, our current administration need not worry.
One of my favorite childhood memories was reading his books
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I feel that
Isaac Azimov... great writer. Horrible human. A true misogynist.
Downright prophetic.
Absolutely
Believe in me, who believes in you!
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is Soros funded Globalist
Right on
One of my childhood heros. I met him when I was 12. what a neat guy
Perfect
Love this so 💙💜
When The Willfully Ignorant Decide They Deserve All The Cookies....The Bakers Might Revolt. When Mommy And Daddy's Last Name Is Baker
Ike was a wise man when came to scieince, and the intellectual discourse of the county.
Issac Asimov never said this. Are you so in need of attention that you must post fake quotes?
Fire Sure! Shabbat Shalom
Advice from the author of The Sensuous Dirty Old Man? Really?
And there we are now !
One of the best
"Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity." Frank Zappa
Hey yall. Isaac Asimov was known just as much for serial sexual misconduct as he was writing sci-fi. We gotta stop quoting ppl like this.
Sounds like Trump's USA!
100 percent!
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Very true.
Asimov could never have grasped the essential quality of ‘the Trump years’ … namely, the all-important mission of owning the libruls 24 x 7 x 52.
Isaac not Issac.
It may be unsafe but continue to speak out anyway!
Lord Love a Duck: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Go to school. Get a little knowledge. Live dangerously.
Nice 'burns!
Love the simian sideburns.
On the same theme…
He’s the best
Being intelligent has caused me much pain in recent years. My mom was far smarter than me, and once said she wanted to be reincarnated as a pampered house cat. No need to think or know… just enjoy days in a sunny window.
He was great in The Goodies.
I never knew he looked just like Graeme Garden from The Goodies!
There it is in a nutshell
True
He was one of my favorite authors growing up. Along with Stephen King and JRR Tolkien.
The man made me feel so stupid sometimes while reading his work in my teens, but he also inspired me to learn & level up.
True
Well, sure. But that’s kinda-sorta easy pickins. The inverse corollary for me is to recognize, too, that when intelligence (or any status) by default is considered patriotism, we are unsafe. Consider, for the briefest of examples, David Halberstam’s “The Best and the Brightest”—simultaneously >
This sums it up nicely.
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When your ears are packed with wax, you can’t hear everything. Sometimes that’s a blessing.
Unfortunately a good point
Brilliant!
My favorite author
I thought I was the only one who cared about the ISS A/C Asimov
His books and intelligence are amazing!
Miss him. His robot novels helped me be a life-long reader.
Here are some of his most memorable sayings:On conflict: "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." "On learning: "Self-education is... the only kind of education there is."On society: "Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom
Thank you Dr Asimov!!! Important reminder for Trump, MAGAs and Dems !
That would describe Mao and his revolution perfectly.
As good a sci-fi writer as there ever was, who really “got” the struggles that we sometimes face!
Smart man.
We seem to be in the unsafest of times.
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself into slavery.
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George McGovern has the very best idea of TRUE PATRIOTISM
I miss Isaac Asimov
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We are living in The Great Stupid
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Cool sideburns. Reminds me of someone . . .
Yarr When is It ever Not. Pick a time You think Nerds We're not Picked on
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Asimov was certainly intelligent. Shame he was such a groper, though. No woman was safe near him.
Hey……..the Dumbing Down of America has undoubtedly been the nation’s most successful program over the past 45 years. Way to go (conservatives)‼️
My dude at +20 seconds moving the barricade like Captain America pulling the pin and dropping the flagpole instead of climbing the greased pole like the rest of the idiots! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My Dad introduced me to Asimov when I was 8. Didn't know I'd appreciate him so much more in my 50s. Thanks Dad. :-)
Is that why he moved to Sri Lanka?
maybe we need to make it more dangerous to be stupid
“Where ignorance is bliss ‘Tis folly to be wise.” www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44301/...
A sad truth
True but useless information
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a-ha
Such an inquisitive and erudite mind he was.
This is the dark side of social media: you can no longer effectively shame people for their deliberate ignorance and their knowingly spreading misinformation, because they can now find an entire tribe who celebrates their particular flavor of dumbassery.
Disappointed to find that he never really said this.
You know I didn't like Isaac much back when he was around, he always seemed so critically piercing somehow but nowadays I appreciate more of where he was coming from. At least he spoke his mind & said what he meant & meant what he said. Patriotism IS stupidity, sorry! Imagine there's no country.
That's one reason why Ukraine is still kicking their enemy's asses. Basically.
Wise words
