David Boles: Prairie Voice

David Boles: Prairie Voice

Dialing for Dimwits

Loving the Uneducated

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David Boles
Sep 18, 2025
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If you think about it — the only people who love the uneducated are the uneducated — and ironically they seldom know how uneducated they are and, famously, we’re all tempted into getting more dimwitted with each passing day.

The uneducated tend not to reason or employ logic. They exist just to be angry and to be ordered what to do. Some people like that style of living while others among us rebel, aghast, at the perfunctory way the uneducated lives are lived.

Now, uneducated doesn’t mean you don’t know. You don’t have to go to school, or have a diploma to be “educated.” No, uneducated is a way of living your life — one of disinterest and disaffectedness that translates into nothing else matters to you but yourself and the tribe in which you believe you belong.

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