"No one in this world, so far as I know ... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."The manipulators are counting on it. [More]
The rags at the checkout counter are all focused on celebrity scandals and the like, instead of on issues free people must be aware of and conversant in. I see it every day checking Examiner results, where the trivial buries the substantive. The "top 5" writers this morning focus respectively on: "Dog News, Celebrity Fitness and Health, Pet Rescue, Paranormal, Sex & Relationships."
Look what's trending!
Hosea comes to mind. That and the pH Factor.
3 comments:
I know "Men in Black" was fiction, but Tommy Lee Jones' character had it right when he said, "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals, and you know it."
It's just a crying shame that HLM was a progressive of the first order.
Hardly, particularly by how the word is misapplied today.
He wasn't one on guns, either.
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