Brutal… but retarded
Joe: why do we have everyone on the call - but no one that can handle the issue
the only person that needs to be on this call is the admin
not there
WTF
Bob: brutal
Joe: yes - but retarded
Bob: i know…. I just don’t understand why no essential people join the meeting
almost like we subscribe to communal troubleshooting
Joe:
Bob: LOL
Joe: brutal….but retarded
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on
– Noam Chomsky (via reddit.com)Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
– John F Kennedy (via reddit.com)Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
– Isaac AsimovOn two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
– Charles Babbage (1791-1871)There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
– James Nicoll
