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  • [Parece haber habido un declive real del pensamiento racional. Estados Unidos se había convertido en un lugar donde los artistas y los deportistas profesionales eran confundidos con personas importantes. Se les idolatraba y se les trataba como líderes; se pedía su opinión sobre todo y se tomaban a sí mismos igual de en serio; después de todo, si a un atleta se le paga un millón o más al año, sabe que es importante... así que sus opiniones sobre asuntos exteriores y política interior también deben ser importantes, aunque demuestre ser un ignorante y un subliterato cada vez que abre la boca.

[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously-after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth. - Robert A. Heinlein
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