The wife directs me this morning to this blog post, which makes a case that people who are not that smart are incapable of recognizing that they are not that smart. With nontrivial consequences for things like, oh, democracy. Or climate change and the denial of same.
If you have been reading this blog longer than about thirty seconds, you will realize that I find this shocking NOT AT ALL. Couple that knowledge with the fact that one political party in this country has been hard at work milking the venom of anti-intellectualism for decades now, and you can see not only how we got in this mess but why our prospects for escaping it are limited at best.
To complete the parody quote from the title… “I see dumb people. Walking around like regular people. They don’t see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don’t know they’re dumb. All the time. They’re everywhere.”
And they will be the death of us, if we let them.