8th August 2025, 11:27 AM
Say something often enough, people start to believe it. The biggest mistake young people are making right now is the naive assumption that "no one gets to that point without having some talent/knowledge/basic competency". Disabusing them of that notion, that sometimes the least qualified really CAN make it all the way to the white house, if they're rich and connected enough, is a very tough pill to swallow. After all, he says these lies so confidently and even casually, as if "everyone knows" that.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)