It’s sad, really. An adult man is terrified of having an opinion because he sees himself as too ordinary to resist manipulation by all-powerful rulers. And he declares it openly.
This dude needs to go get his sperm count checked out. It’s probably non-existent.
Having seen many people on twitter with passionate opinions about foreign policy and very little actual knowledge, I wish more people would admit their ignorance and excuse themselves from the discussion. But this guy seems to be advocating not just for knowing one’s limits, but willful ignorance.
Obviously nobody is obligated to learn about foreign policy, or about politics at all. But just like ignoring what CNN says about politics doesn’t mean you have to be entirely apolitical, the same goes for events in foreign countries. Done right, you can see interesting ways people with an agenda lie about things, and contemplate why that might be.
Important caveat: this stuff is near hopeless with no firsthand knowledge of what’s happening. It’s very easy for me to know when the media is lying about something local. When it’s something that happened halfway around the world, much harder.
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It’s one thing to never discuss Shakespeare, and it’s another to say, “an ordinary person like me is incapable of understanding this. People are manipulating me into having an opinion about Shakespeare but I’m onto their tricks.” It’s perfectly fine not to know about any sort of events and not to be interested. But to fashion a position out of a lack speaks to a mentality that is organized around a negative.
A conservative literary critic and college professor
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