Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

by Kim Stanley Robinson

Compare that after all to the hypocrisy of the West, where people talked of profit at prayer breakfasts, people who couldn’t articulate a single belief they had; people who thought their values were physical constants, who would say “That’s just the way things are,”

Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.