(8 hours ago)quintessentone Wrote:(8 hours ago)The Crying Bunny Wrote: The majority does not own the franchise on facts.
The majority is often filled with people too damned lazy to think for themselves.
That certainly is a convenient way of thinking to convince yourself that you are right and they are wrong.
Which does not necessarily make it a false statement.
It's been shown in studies that most people are just too busy getting on with their personal lives and problems to dig around in the muck of political opinion for themselves, and so those folks do tend to accept opinions "issued" to them - usually opinions in alignment with their own predispositions whether "Left " or "Right" - from other people. That's just the way it is, for better or worse. They tend to think whatever the TV or internet tells them to think simply because they've not got the time, or inclination, or in some cases intellectual horsepower, to personally dig into it themselves.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake