Most people think little
“Most people think little.” So Somerset Maugham observed in his quasi-autobiography, The Summing Up.
I was reminded of this recently when a couple of people I was talking with made some casual remarks of a political nature. It was obvious that they were simply parroting something they had read in the New York Times, or seen on PBS News, or heard on NPR. Liberal platitudes, in other words.
The problem, of course, was not that the views expressed were liberal (one encounters the same thing with conservatives), but that they were platitudes. [Read more →]
