Excerpt of a Robert Anton Wilson Interview with Richard Metzger

"They don't have those distinctions because any teacher in the United States who's caught trying to teach children how to judge statements logically… immediately, the whole school board, all the parents and especially the local clergy come down on his or her case and he or she gets fired, thrown out on their ass, and has to find work in another field. You can't teach children to think. It's against the law. So of course nobody has any standards how to judge whether Martians are in the White House or if General Motors owns the President or whether there are fetuses of extraterrestrials at Fort Bragg; they have no standard by which to judge. So they judge by whomever they heard speak most recently! “Oh that must be the truth, I just heard it five minutes ago.” They don't have an attention span that goes more than ten minutes and that's because they've never been taught how to use their brains. I used to advertise my seminars as “How to Use Your Brain for Fun and Profit”. These days most people don't even know how to use it for fun, much less know how to use it for profit."