More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think all of society should be a think-tank where you throw ideas about. I had hoped the Internet would help. Actually, what it has done is make everybody go schtum. They're attacked for saying anything. So they say nothing.
Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn't have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they're thinking and have their voice be heard.
Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
Society and the system and politicians don't want people to be aware of things. They want people to believe what they have to show 'em.
They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.
No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.