QUOTE(ulsterman @ Wed 28th April 2010, 7:26am)
I really must reject the entire thesis implicit in this thread title. People are stupid already. As the saying goes, nobody ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the general public. It isn't fair to blame the Internet.
Maybe what is true is that people know more that isn't true, because nonsense is more easily spread than it used to be.
Yes,
we are all frail, but the promised hand that would lift us up by our bootstraps has yet to show itself — all we see are fickle fingers pointing the way down slippery slopes in every direction, yea, unto bottomless pits where all our piety and wits are washed out down to the very last drips.
Jon (IMG:
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