Reply #49: Indeed [View All]

I still have hope, though. I don't believe people are actually stupid, I believe that people believe they are stupid.

Having been disconnected now from commercial television for several years, I'm amazed whenever exposed again for a short time how utterly condescending and insulting to the intelligence it is. Yet, I spent most of my childhood with the Box always on, and it didn't consciously phase me.

Call someone stupid every day, many times, year after year, and they will come to believe it. They'll also believe in their own powerlessness.

I find it so ironic. Human beings are the most intelligent and powerful form of life on the planet, yet one is hard pressed to find one specimen who believes this about themselves.