…IT JUST TEACHES YOU TOO MUCH!
This truism is attributed to Noam Chomsky, one of the most celebrated and controversial American intellectuals ever (the quote appears on his FaceBook page, as you can see!). He has been a rabble-rousing thinker and speaker for many years. People with a lot of power (including billionaires, of course) stay away from him, if they know anything about him.
He speaks for the rest of us who live by what we think and teach–the kind of person dictators hate; I think it’s fair to say that Donald Trump abhors thinkers of any kind.
If this were Germany in the 1940s, Russia in the 1950s, Cuba in the 1960s, or Chile in the 1970s, Chomsky (an intellectual Jew, of course!) would have been thrown out of the U.S. (he’s too famous for anything worse). But guys like me would be on the list to disappear. I say this because this has happened before in the countries cited and many others.
So, beware! Don’t learn too much!
P.S. I thank Dr. Jesus Perez of Cascadia College for directing me to this quote by Chomsky.