{"id":19870,"date":"2017-10-14T18:12:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T22:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/?p=19870"},"modified":"2017-10-14T18:20:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T22:20:01","slug":"the-ignorati-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/the-ignorati-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"The ignorati rise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chapman University recently published<\/a> the results of a depressing, but hardly surprising, survey that shows American believe in codswallop continue to rise. Not political codswallop – this is the supernatural, paranormal, wingnut type.  And the numbers are huge. Or yuge as the ignorati-in-chief would say.<\/p>\n

The article notes, “nearly three-fourths of Americans do believe in something paranormal.” While we expect that sort of muddle-headed, superstitious thinking to be widespread in the 13th century, that’s truly sad in the 21st century. And we don’t expect it in the country that put a man on the moon, invented the iPad and the PC. You can’t do that when you believe in ghosts, goblins and magic.<\/p>\n

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These are truly, deeply unsettling scary figures. Almost 20% of those surveyed believe “psychics” and “fortune tellers” can “…can foresee the future.” These so-called psychics are constantly being debunked and revealed in the media as con artists,  swindlers and charlatans. Yet millions of Americans believe they have some ability to see the future. Depressing. But it gets worse. According to the results,<\/p>\n