Observations About the World, Part Thirty-Eight
Photograph of the Atlas globe Opinions, Do They Matter? Monday – July 13, 2026 I have often had the pleasure or displeasure, depending on your perspective, to have to deal with the opinions of other people , and what this has taught me is that most people are stupid , ignorant, and perfectly duped and controlled . Ask yourself this: why is it that so many people tend to believe what some random person on the internet or in a news article says? Should it not be the case that most people should act with some kind of circumspect around information, read " Navigating the Informational Landscape ", that they are not yet too familiar with? But no, most people will believe information if they know very little about it, and this carries to the extent where it becomes easier to lie to people, rather than to convince them of the truth. If anything was a great material argument against democracy , this fact should be. Yes, it may come across as ironic then, that I should stat...