“I am bothered by the way misinformation is accepted uncritically, and by the way people are unable to recognize it or reject it.”
This is part of Lang's campaign in his attempt to discredit the results of The 1977 survey of the American professoriate published in 1979 by Everett C Ladd and Seymour M Lipsett. In 1981 Lang published The File: Case Study in Correction (1977-1979) which consists of copies of correspondence concerning the survey. In this quote from The File Lang sets out why he fought that campaign.
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“Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.”
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. LIX
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“Critical Path is a way to dig yourself out from all that misinformation.”
From 1980s onwards, Buckminster Fuller Talks Politics (1982)
Source: "Quotes", Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts (2003), p. 97
Things I Do For You (credited to "The Jacksons")
Destiny (1977)
“The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.”
Source: How to Solve It (1945), p. 100
“It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this.”
Source: The Corrections
“I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.”
Source: The Analects, Chapter I
“So the way you say I am dominating, I am not dominating. I am serving people.”
In an interview in Dhaka. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/16/british-jihadis-bangladesh-extremism-uk-isis-sheikh-hasina
Context: All the democratic institutions are working and people are satisfied and people are enjoying it. So the way you say I am dominating, I am not dominating. I am serving people.