Whenever you see someone trying to propagate his or her views and ideologies through uneducated people, be immediately on your guard! Because one uses uneducated people as one's propaganda network precisely because such people do not have the wherewithal to question, critique, doubt - all three time tested means of shutting up nonsense.
The primary thing that distinguishes human beings from animals is an educated intellect. Otherwise, animals eat, sleep, defecate, have sex and procreate too.
The bare minimum, absolute bare minimum, requirement to think of oneself as above animals is to have read, on an average, at least one good book for every year we have lived. Hence the push for literacy worldwide!
But look around today and you will see yourself surrounded by people who have never read a good book at all! The only information that enters their mind is through WhatsApp forwards and a media network that's almost entirely sold out. Hence the mess!
So look out, be super careful about who you pay attention to and what you allow to enter your mind. Make sure you keep your intellect educated - that's the best sentry, the best guard, to station at the entrance of your mind.
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