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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Does it really matter that people don't know that information? I would think the details of cosmology are extraneous to most people's lives, and thus one of the first facts they forget (unused memories are lost the fastest).
If a piece of information has no relevance to someone's life, then it is just trivia. Why get worried over people not knowing it?
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I think to have a functional country, yes. The problem is that most of the population have relegated the management of their lives and the government to others and they just follow along like sheep.
Given that scenario then no, but what if those leaders don't know basic science, history, literature.
Recipe for disaster in my book.