"...unfettered clacking bollocks..."

I think I just ran into the audience for
At the counter there were two guys talking.  By their conversation (picking out what movie to write papers by), college age.  Dudes.  Call them Dunning and Kruger.  They looked past me at the People magazine beside the register, and said, I don't get what all the fuss is about.  I mean, I never heard of this guy Jobs.  Yeah, so he's something to do with Apple.  They only have 9% of the market.

That's just the planet stupid part.

A minute or two later, they passed me on the stairs, and Kruger was saying, No, I didn't get a flu shot.  And I'll never get a flu shot.  I'm not an  alarmist, but there's this extreme right-wing conspiracy to vaccinate everyone...

I said sharply, "Vaccines save lives.  And I'm a lefty."  Bet he thinks I'm a crazy old harpy.

Credulous buffoon.

And that's what infuriates me:  that self-crowned pseudo-revolutionary skepticism that is nothing more than won't.  Can't make me.

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