Your Guess Is as Good as Mine (In These Times, 2005)

Kurt Vonnegut · 12 Dec 2005

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Leaders in Washington are proudly ignorant guessers, sick of the solid information research and reporting provide

Their wordsSome of the loudest, most proudly ignorant guessing in the world is going on in Washington today. Our leaders are sick of all the solid information that has been dumped on humanity by research and scholarship and investigative reporting.
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Using the vast knowledge now available to educated people will leave you lonesome

Their wordsBut let me warn you, if you make use of the vast fund of knowledge now available to educated persons, you are going to be lonesome as hell.

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