So, obviously anyone can be anything if they just work on it for a little while.
The problem is that these buffoons don't seem willing to put in even the "little while". They gawk at FAUX News for an evening, listen to various dunderheads regurgitating Exxon's falsehoods, and believe that qualifies them to pronounce on a subject of which they know absolutely nothing.
It's a nightmare, really. The views of that drunken loudmouth bore everyone avoids in the pub are supposed to carry equal weight with those of the people whose area of expertise this is. I remember reading a science fiction way back in my teens where this was the case, and it was regarded as a dystopian satire; it never occurred to me I'd see it come into reality -- I assumed, naive fool as I am, that human beings would have too much good sense.
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So, obviously anyone can be anything if they just work on it for a little while.
The problem is that these buffoons don't seem willing to put in even the "little while". They gawk at FAUX News for an evening, listen to various dunderheads regurgitating Exxon's falsehoods, and believe that qualifies them to pronounce on a subject of which they know absolutely nothing.
It's a nightmare, really. The views of that drunken loudmouth bore everyone avoids in the pub are supposed to carry equal weight with those of the people whose area of expertise this is. I remember reading a science fiction way back in my teens where this was the case, and it was regarded as a dystopian satire; it never occurred to me I'd see it come into reality -- I assumed, naive fool as I am, that human beings would have too much good sense.