Bad News About Those Vanishing Barriers

There is an old Doug Stanhope bit where a news channel polled their viewers “ Will there be a terrorist attack at this year’s Olympics? " and the results were: 70% no 28% yes 2% I don’t know. The punchline is that none of these people know , and what the survey really tells us is that 98% of people will have strong opinions about things they can’t possibly know anything about. This is what it…