It’s not enough to be well-educated anymore. We have a responsibility to make sure those around us are not ignorant.
Why?
Because internet content and media “coverage” is now being delivered to us on a “pull” basis. Whatever the majority demands is what we all get exposed to.
We have to raise our lowest common denominator to get higher quality information delivered to us.
This is why experiments like www.coursera.org are so important. Free higher education for the masses can only help us now in escaping the whirlpools of ignorance and its capsizing currents of unnecessary drama. Imagine what humankind could experience…