July 26, 2025
How Abandoning Knowledge And Truth Destroys Nations
By Albin Sadar
When I was in elementary school, around the fifth grade, I remember an encyclopedia salesman coming into our classroom and promoting his collection of a dozen leather-bound books. For clarification for readers under the age of twenty, encyclopedias were the forerunners of today’s Wikipedia—or, perhaps more accurately, Google; i.e., Wish to know something about anything? Google it, right?
Well, after making his pitch to the class, the encyclopedia salesman gave each of us a little button that we could wear as a reminder of his wonderful, indispensable product. The button read:
We Never Guess,
We Look It Up!
So, I, being just one of many self-appointed class clowns, pinned on the button and immediately and proudly declared, “I never guess, I make it up!” (insert titters from 10-year-olds here).
Never guessing and just going ahead and making something up might be a brilliant joke for young children, but it turns into a dangerous mindset—even going as far as becoming an evil way of thinking—when applied to important cultural and political issues. Four examples come to mind.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/how_abandoning_knowledge_and_truth_destroys_nations.html
