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“There are idiots all over. Why are we paying so much attention to what they say?”
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“There are idiots all over. Why are we paying so much attention to what they say?”
“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil”
Plato
“To succeed in life you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”
Mark Twain
“But there are tens of millions of liberals in this country, and even more tens of millions of conservatives. At any given moment, statistically, thousands of these people are saying or doing things that are horrible and idiotic. Sheerly by chance, some of those scrofulous churls will have some minor position of power in one institution or another.”
Great!
“We are all ignorant in respect to what we know–or do not know for that matter–about the universe and our existence. All else is trivial and insignificant.”
-Me
This reminds me a TV commercial on car insurance (can’t remember which one exactly) they show on TV all the time these days that makes emphasis on how nowadays people believe everything…and I mean EVERYTHING……they see on the Internet. Even the most obvious things that common sense tells you are not true, someone never fails to fall for it. Sad but true.
“You can’t fix stupid!”
– Unknown
I think it is idiotic to have a “saying” or an opinion on everything.
Is this something along the lines of
“fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again”
Very good quote Mr. Peterson! I remember my salty baseball coach saying that anytime someone made an error. One wouldnt think such a poor encouragement approach would stick with a player for so many years. Now, I catch myself saying it!
Angel, I like your quote. We are very quick to judge–who are we to deem others as ignorant? In the grand scheme of things, we are all absolutely ignorant. Just look up Socrates.
Who are we talking about here? Paul Krugman? =D
“the tremendous power of social media relentlessly amplifies these sorts of cretinous musings as if they actually mattered”
BURN
Rather than ban FOX News, why not teach the students about media bias and have an exercise where students are required to take major news outlets and place them into a bias category (left, right, etc.). FOX News isn’t the only news outlet that has an obvious bias. Basically news is entertainment for the masses; they pick the version that suits their fancy.