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My mother was one of the most ignorant people I've ever known. Clueless, uneducated, proud of it, assured she was right about everything.
I remember her cursing her bad teeth due to lack of fluoridation in Depression-era West Virginia. I remember her telling me what a miracle the polio vaccine was, and how scared she was a child before it came along.
One time I asked my great-great-aunt, an old woman living on a Civil War-era farm, why the moon was round. She explained gravity and how it pulls the moon into a sphere.
And somehow, it this wondrous age of free information, we've collectively become more ignorant than these people. And it fucking enrages me.