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And..? Please state what you're trying to insinuate, so the rest of us can learn from your knowledge.

Actually, the writer is saying that the entire article is to be taken as a preface to that last statement, which is clearly about politics.

Why is this rubbish being linked by hacker news? This is a barely-comprehensible, illogical rant. There's nothing wrong with being self-taught, but I'm getting sick of this anti-intellectualism. There's nothing wrong with learning how to teach yourself more efficiently, either, which is precisely what modern liberal education proscribes. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_education)