It may be cruel to poke fun at ignorant people, but the way I see it, if they proudly flaunt their obliviousness without a hint of humility or self-awareness, then they’re fair game.
I was in line at a movie theater recently when I could not help but overhear a conversation - more of a monologue, really - involving a very loud guy who was regaling his silent, masochistic pals with his outraged take on the sorry state of journalism today.
It quickly became apparent that this blabbermouth based his opinion on the case of that 5-year-old Alabama boy who was abducted from his school bus by a man who killed the bus driver and then stashed the child in an underground bunker.
“And he's holding this kid in a bunker! A friggin' bunker! This should be national news,” the man shouted. “Why isn’t this national news? It makes you wonder what else we don’t know about. This should be national news!”
When I returned home a short time later, I googled “kidnapped boy” and “Alabama.” This turned up 12,800 results, including links on the home pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, CBS News and Google news.
To quote Goethe: “Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.”
I was in line at a movie theater recently when I could not help but overhear a conversation - more of a monologue, really - involving a very loud guy who was regaling his silent, masochistic pals with his outraged take on the sorry state of journalism today.
It quickly became apparent that this blabbermouth based his opinion on the case of that 5-year-old Alabama boy who was abducted from his school bus by a man who killed the bus driver and then stashed the child in an underground bunker.
“And he's holding this kid in a bunker! A friggin' bunker! This should be national news,” the man shouted. “Why isn’t this national news? It makes you wonder what else we don’t know about. This should be national news!”
When I returned home a short time later, I googled “kidnapped boy” and “Alabama.” This turned up 12,800 results, including links on the home pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, CBS News and Google news.
To quote Goethe: “Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.”
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