In an important development that may have far-reaching consequences, recent reports appear to confirm the suspicion, long held by many, that most people are in fact massively ignorant about almost everything. See here, and here.
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6 Comments
Wow! Two really informative articles! The first one was a real shocker. I didn’t even know that the heart was in the body. I thought that my wife had mine.
Jeffery Hodges
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Mine’s in a hilly city out West.
Yes, we’re dumb, but there are some things about which we might be infallible.
Kevin
Might? We might be infallible about some things . . . but we’re not sure? Hmmm . . . I’m not sure that I’m infallible about some things, but I am sure about my uncertainty. I think. But maybe not. Oh, hell, I don’t know!
Jeffery Hodges
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Yup. The one thing about which I’m not ignorant is that about most things I’m ignorant.
Charles Fort said: “Intelligence is a confession of ignorance.”