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Originally Posted by CRussel
I think this is what bothered me the most about this book, even as I rated it 4 stars and quite enjoyed it overall, I still come back to the, for want of a better word, glorification of ignorance. It started early and never really went away.
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I think I saw this less as a glorification of ignorance and more a glorification of "other." I think this speaks to me more uniquely as I am from the American South. Many folks hear my accent and assume many, many things about me, very few of which are true. But I will own that there are people who have base-level literacy that are better craftsmen, farmers and artists than me and my doctorate will ever be.
I think that is the point he might have been trying to make - that these people are living on land that has been sustained for hundreds of years by people who have very little education beyond the dirt on their hands.
I don't truck with praising ignorance, but I also don't truck with the notion that intelligence means the same thing for everyone. I am sure that this underpinned his writing, whether he meant it or not.
Either way, I am really glad to see such thoughtful discussion of the book
