Something to be seriously pondered…

Study: 38 Percent of People Not Actually Entitled To Their Opinion

CHICAGO – In a surprising refutation of the conventional wisdom on opinion entitlement, a study conducted by the University of Chicago's School for Behavioral Science concluded that more than one-third of the U.S. population is neither entitled nor qualified to have opinions.

"On topics from evolution to the environment to gay marriage to immigration reform, we found that many of the opinions expressed were so off-base and ill-informed that they actually hurt society by being voiced," said chief researcher Professor Mark Fultz, who based the findings on hundreds of telephone, office, and dinner-party conversations compiled over a three-year period.

"While people have long asserted that it takes all kinds, our research shows that American society currently has a drastic oversupply of the kinds who don't have any good or worthwhile thoughts whatsoever. We could actually do just fine without them."

In 2002, Fultz's team shook the academic world by conclusively proving the existence of both bad ideas during brainstorming and dumb questions during question-and-answer sessions.

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Quite an apprehensive situation!

Depending democracy so much on the making – and, of course, on the makers – of public opinion these days, what will become of our societies if people keep on not wanting to know anything whatsoever about what is happening around them?

In Portugal, should we for instance close down schools once and for all? The question is rather provocative, I know, but so many huge mistakes have been being made – and still go on being – as far as education is concerned for the last say 25-30 years that I honestly see no defensible alternative…

Shut them down altogether for good, and tell parents overtly what they've always believed in: 'Schools are good for nothing!'
They may not say it, but they do think so. Otherwise they'd be so much more committed to making their progeny realise schools are no places 'to have fun'. If you have to have fun at all you go anywhere else, but not to school. At school you work, for crying out loud!

Meritocracy?! Information and knowledge society?! Are they joking?! How only, if no sense of responsibility is involved in the growing up process? It is not fomented, it is not developed, and no one cares anymore whether or not you have principles or act according to a set of values. 'Rubbish from the past', that's what they think, parents and children alike.




Let them sit all day long playing obnoxious videogames.
Maybe they'll eventually learn something after all.
By osmosis.
And – the main thing – they'll be having fun.

RIC