Ignorance minus bliss ...

... Is the West Doomed? | FrontPage Magazine. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

If knowledge is power, ignorance is weakness. A Western world run by people most of whom either think Winston Churchill was a fictional character or are barely aware of who he was and what he did – and how radically different their own lives would be if he had never existed – is the stuff of nightmares.

See also: Public reason, Indian style. (Hat tip, Vikram Johri.)