Wednesday, September 19, 2007

cranky dave

A comment on my favorite discussion website MetaFilter.com:

'One of our major problems in this country is that most intelligent people have an overdeveloped sense of "fair play", which dullards and ideologues constantly take advantage of. We waste far too much time on fools. Rather than writing them off, we scramble to accommodate their idiocy and provide them with a platform to perpetuate it. If someone injects a full-goose crazy idea into a discussion, the tendency is NOT to dismiss it as "full-goose crazy" -- but to seek a middle ground. All in the name of "everyone is entitled to their opinion". That's nonsense, of course. As Harlan Ellison countered: "No! You're not entitled to your own opinion. You're entitled to your own INFORMED opinion."'

In response to this.

1 comment:

JTM said...

Oh my fucking god...

I'm going to assume that some extra oxygen leaked into her brain and caused some minor conflict. I met her on a set one time and she was cool and is a smart actor...which far from makes her a smart person.