“These are our realities, and, like our ancestors of fifty thousand years ago, if we--as a species rather than as an individual--are uninformed or careless, or indifferent to the Facts (emphasis mine), then survival as a species is in serious doubt." ~~John D. MacDonald, Reading for Survival. c. 1987” FactsReadingAwarenessSurvival Book:Reading for Survival Source: Reading for Survival
“The nonreader in our culture wants to believe. He is the “one born every minute”. The world is so vastly confusing and baffling to him that he feels there has to be some simple answer to everything that troubles him.” ReadingCommon SenseSurvival Of The Species Book:Reading for Survival Source: Reading for Survival
“And I quote: "Here in America, as elsewhere, there will always be tremulous little people of dim intellect and hyperactive imagination, burning for explanations to all life's vicissitudes. They grow impatient with learned analyses of the present. They are defeated by histories that illuminate the past. No species of scholarship or analysis could ever satisfy them; for they need that Wondrous Explanation that will quiet all their fears, thrill them with villains to revile, and never tax their feeble powers of intellection.” ReadingIntellectApathyScholarshipGullible PeopleUnwary Book:Reading for Survival Source: Reading for Survival
