| DON YOCHAM
What This Man Thinks
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I owe you an apology.
Last week provided two exquisite examples to ridicule what Francis Bacon would refer to as Idols of the Theater. Or what I would call dumb stuff Mass Man clings to without proof.
And I let them pass without comment.
Before I fess up to the specifics, though, I should probably clarify what I mean by Mass Man. It is, after all, a common target of my derision and the cause of abusive government power in the first place.
When I say Mass Man, I mean that individual, whether male, female, flying spaghetti monster, or whatever, that is completely vested in the images cast upon Plato’s cave.
The Mass Man has no clue it has fallen in love with an illusion. It would tear you apart for pointing out the lie. It knows only what it has been taught. It bathes in willful ignorance.
Like Thomas Edison said, “Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
It doesn’t really decide for itself.
That 85% is what I mean when I say “Mass Man.”
And now for the apology…
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