The internet and Google have created the illusion that all of humanity's knowledge is just a click away. He'll be remembered not as the president who belittled intelligence, science, and education.
Because despite Trump's triumphant histrionics, knowledge is important. Sapiens and in Infinity in a reed. The incredible technical and humanistic advances, from an airplane to the Divine Comedy, have been the fruit of people who have dedicated their lives to thinking, researching, innovating, creating, and others who have known how to turn theoretical discoveries into practical applications and artistic discoveries into beacons to illuminate the path we must follow.
This fabulous value chain is what has led us to artificial intelligence (AI) or molecular genetics. Without the work of scientists and intellectuals, technologists and teachers, we would not have experienced such a spectacularly successful evolution. We must know how to ask questions with intention and meaning.)
When Trump goes against prestigious universities and research centers, when he blocks the entry of brilliant students from all over the world because he doesn't trust their ideas, when he criticizes artists who criticize him, when he boycotts the media that promotes information that laughed at the pandemic... When he does all this, he is boycotting the progress of humanity, he is throwing stones at the roof of common secular advancement. Dangerous. He understands nothing but takes advantage of everything.
As I write these things, it's clear to me that as long as he's in charge, I won't be able to travel to the United States: the land of the free won't respect my freedom to speak my mind, nor will many other, much more valuable fields, from the purest science to the humanities in the broadest sense, from medical research to space. He does, of course. But in a globalized world, it's exacerbated it. It's a persecutory obsession older than walking, often linked to the authoritarian and populist impulse."Death to intelligence" By Millán Astray. Those were fascist times. Now we are seeing post-fascist times, in which violence is exercised indirectly: it is more convenient and effective to kill the enemy with lies and financial strangulation than with the use of force. Trump already tried his assault on the Capitol, and it didn't work out. He has ended up reconquering power with the extraordinary power of his communication apparatus, constantly explaining to us that he is the smartest of them all. Someone among his people should tell him that the king has no clothes. Disregarding intelligence is very unintelligent. It may not seem so now, but he will pay dearly for it.
