“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.”
Bertrand Russell
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.”
Bertrand Russell
Climate change comes to mind.
Stop Global Whining!
Exactly my thought when ignorasses are down voting me.
“Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible…
Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.”
— Bertrand Russell, “The Impact of Science on Society”, 1953, pg 50-51
https://archive.org/details/TheImpactOfScienceOnSociety-B.Russell