This is a perfect time for some Mark Twain quotes:

"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so."

"Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right."

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot."

"How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!"

"Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider."

"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story."

"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."


And for good measure:

"When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?"


Now please, feel free to continue your ignorant, inane mental meandering about what you've been told is true.


I belong on eroding granite, among the pines.