It would be super cool if the tech media would simply stop credulously repeating every value-juicing statement C-Suites make like they’re the in-house PR department. The only difference between these hollow promises and the guy crying, “The end is near!” on the street corner is funding.
I'm most disturbed by the presumption that a PhD signifies intelligence.
I was in Mensa briefly and the other members were imbeciles because they all believed they were too smart for school and thus never refined their intelligence with *education.*
Every one was a conspiracy nutter as a result.
To a rather startling degree.
The thing that made me literally burn my membership card and walk away was the membership magazine published this incoherent anti-Muslim screed written by a member who was in desperate need of heavy medication.
And the thing was, it wasn't just blind babbling bigotry--it was that pernicious logic-from-an-illogical-mind form of reasoned argument that studies show the untrained intelligent mind is particularly susceptible to.
The fun part about purely reasonable people is that from the right angle you can get them to reason themselves into anything. Unfortunately, that kind of manipulation is rarely executed with good intentions.
