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This story from Alternet.org got my attention. I tend to
agree with most of it, too. It has a neat heading: “Why Do Some Americans Speak
So Confidently When They Have No Clue What They're Talking About?” What a
catchy title.
In part this intro: “People with great power over our lives,
in government, business, medicine, and elsewhere, who don’t know what they are
talking about are scary. Even more scary are people in authority who don’t know what they’re talking about but who
have spent a lifetime perfecting how to appear like they do.
“Complete conviction and total certainty are sources of
great power, especially over vulnerable and uncertain people. And so the
pretense of conviction and certainty can be quite damaging.”
How true that is in more ways than one.
I remember late in my Marine Corps career after I left the
infantry to become a full time interrogator, we had a saying: “You can't break
an interrogator and make him talk.”
That is true in part, since we were supposed to know all the
tricks and techniques involved in getting someone to talk whether they wanted
to or not to give up valuable intelligence to us. However, everyone has a
breaking point. It might take more time to find it while trying to break a
skilled interrogator, but it is still there someplace. That is a fact.
One phase I really liked over the years has been is: “You can't bullshit a bullshitter,so don’t
even try.” Now that makes a lot of sense don’t you think? It has real merit and kind of ties into this
story. So, enjoy the piece article at the link.
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