I was at the grocery store the other day, grabbing some salad, and this little old lady comes up to me and warns me not to eat spinach because of what happened recently in the news.
I'm like "dude, there were only a few cases of people getting sick, it was a fluke you old retard."
I've thought about this for a while....generally speaking, why are people so easily led? From easily-disproven scary news stories, marketing schemes, to religion. People are being lied to and capitalized on.
I know someone will respond sarcastically by saying something about how I think I'm the smartest person in the world.
I'm not, I'm just a normal guy.
I just wonder about stuff sometimes and I want good answers. Like scientific ones. Really, why do people follow others so easily?
2006-11-12
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