Cruzin' the internet.

I don’t get it.  I don’t get why the people that live in the majority of political standpoints lying between the extremes sit back and let the crazies dominate the airwaves.  I never see a headline on CNN where one side says “I like ‘A,’ it’s great” where I don’t see something right below it saying “Not only is ‘A’ bad, that guy is an idiot for even kinda liking it!” So Obama finally comes out in favor of making internet a utility.  Which it should be.   Immediately below that is Ted Cruz saying that Net Neutrality is Obamacare for the internet.   I don’t get it.   The only motivation for Cruz to be against it is to be against it.  Or, perhaps, that he gets a ton of funds from corporations that want it to be not a utility.  In 2014 are we saying that internet shouldn’t be as much of a right as water, gas, electric, etc?   Hell, phone is a utility, right?  How is that fundamentally different than internet?  It’s not.  You can make arguments, say that the infrastructure and tech is what you’re paying for, but that’s stupid.  Phone, electricity…same shit, just 75 years earlier. I don’t…

Dunning-Kruger Effect, yo.

The Dunning–Kruger effect was put forward in 1999, though they have noted similar historical observations from philosophers and scientists, including Confucius ("Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."), Socrates ("I know that I know nothing"), Bertrand Russell ("One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision."), and Charles Darwin, whom they quoted in their  paper ("ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge").

Geraint Fuller, commenting on the paper, noted that Shakespeare expressed similar sentiment in As You Like It ("The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole.")

So much this.  I live in a world where I have to constantly envy the people that suffer from this.  While they probably live simpler, less stressful, and happier lives, I guess they also have the unknown possibility of really screwing something up and getting fired.  Whereas I would get fired for some screw up that I really spent time trying to make the right decision about knowing it was probably wrong.

But maybe I’m the Dunning-Kruger of Dunning-Kruger diagnoses. 

(source of information in the first paragraph:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect )

I'm broken.  We're broken.   Seriously, we're all broken.  There are people that walk around thinking they aren’t and I’m convinced they are the worst of all.  Not the worst people, but the people that are (not necessarily to the bad) the most ignorant of the human condition.  I was recalling an episode of “House” the other day called “ignorance is bliss.”  The sick guy in that one was found to be intentionally drugging himself to lower his 178 IQ closer to his wife’s 87 IQ.  He loved her but couldn’t relate to her, or to any normal humans, without dumbing himself down.   And maybe ignorance is bliss.  Or egocentrism at least.  What a blessing to go through life either thinking that nothing is bad or thinking that you are perfect. I both love and hate my constant self-analysis.  I think that it gives me a better handle on what is really going on in the world, but it also causes great consternation upon the realization of my failures and shortcomings. Isn’t that, though, a narcissistic view?  That I have a better grasp on reality because I think I have a better grasp on reality?  Well crap.  Like I said: Broken.