To quote...
In one of his final essays from 2006, Vidal wrote that America had
“entered the Dark Ages.”
“What we are seeing,” he explained, “are the
obvious characteristics of the West after the fall of Rome: the triumph
of religion over reason; the atrophy of education and critical thinking;
the integration of religion, the state, and the apparatus of torture—a
troika that was for Voltaire the central horror of the pre-Enlightenment
world; as well as, today, the political and economic marginalization of
our culture.”
None of the horror is possible without, at least,
the tacit approval of a large percentage of the American public. Polls
reveal that Americans are comfortable with drone killing and torture,
that they do not believe in evolutionary biology, and that they no
longer read much. Vidal once quipped, “Half of the American people read a
newspaper. Half of the American people vote. Let us hope it is the same
half.”
Extract from: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/great-american-novelist-who-warned-us-about-donald-trump-fox-news-and-rise
