17th March 2003, 6:12 PM
Does anyone else see the irony in the concept of TELLING people to think for themselves? Am I the only one who sees something logically wrong with such a concept?
If I am, it's because you are ordering someone to not be ordered around.
If I am, it's because you are ordering someone to not be ordered around.
"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)