Using The Power Of The Precog

My second mom sent me yet another story about some stupid-ass americans restricting the viewing of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth on the grounds that no viable "opposing view" is being made available with it:

"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. "The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."

"Federal Way schools restrict Gore film, seattlepi.com

Now forget for a moment the fact that these people are clearly religious wing-nuts trying to force their back-assward beliefs on a body of potentially free-thinking, intelligent people. Instead, I'd like to focus on the fact that this is not a surprise.

We know that the world is chock-full of morons, and we know that they're organised. (Of course the argument can be made that our "democratic" system has installed our own "Tyranny of the Stupid", but I won't go there today). I'm thinking tonight about how we can use this information to our advantage.

It's one thing for a smart person to stand up in a room and say something intelligent, but that alone isn't enough. What the smart person needs to do is stand up knowing what the thought-fearing majority is going to say (or rather be told to say) so (s)he can crush that deranged opposition before it starts.