Prop 8 data:
- Voters without a college degree (62%) were far more likely than college graduates (43%) to vote yes.
I have spent a lifetime reading everything I can get my hands on...educating myself...running from a part of my family (on both sides) that revel in a willful ignorance of fact, reason and progress. I worked three jobs simultaneously at one point in college so that I could afford to finish. More exactly to be the first in my family to finish. College, for me, wasn't an option. It was a requirement.
Even beyond college, my life tends to be centered around rabbit holes of information. It's why I live (I meant to write love, but maybe "live" is more appropriate) LJ and blogs...I can read and click and read and click and pretty soon MY world evaporates into a greater universe of new things and possibilities. I can open up my laptop, blink and realize that 4 hours have gone by in an instant. It is never a waste in my eyes...because I always always always learn something new and interesting.
The thing about the stat above is that it explains so much about my journey in life. Away from the willfully ignorant. Away from the willfully uneducated. Away from the fear.