Ignorance and Arrogance

[struggle4progress]

... For his supporters, one of Carson's greatest attributes is his soft-spoken humility. Yet what we really see in Carson is a compounding mix of ignorance and arrogance ...

When you watch Carson navigating the public square you see someone who is remarkably ignorant about huge swathes of human knowledge and particularly information about US government and public policy. But you also see someone who's quite confident he's very knowledgable. So he's both remarkably ignorant and either stunningly unaware of his ignorance or totally indifferent to it. You might even say he is militantly ignorant. In all aspects of life, that is a dangerous combination. And the combination is almost always rooted in arrogance. None of us know everything. And in a complex world, we don't need to. The key is having some realistic grasp of what you do know and what you don't know.

That not only helps you avoid big mistakes and embarrassing gaffes, it also helps you learn. Because you can't learn about things you think you already know ...

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ignorance-and-arrogance

[longship]

1. R&K for Josh Marshall. This one especially on target.

Google Dunning-Kruger effect and one would still not have a better explanation than Josh Marshall's here.

More at link, highly recommended click through.

R&

[marble falls]

3. Really, really good link.

[mountain grammy]

6. Very interesting..

I can picture Carson believing the lemon juice thing. I want to laugh, but it's just too damn real.

[MisterG]

2. A great American agrees.

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure." -Mark Twain

[Fred Sanders]

4. Injectable opiates have that kind of long_term effect....I am not being snarky, the guy has to be

on some kind of medication that controls whatever it is that haunts this once fully functioning man.

Opiates or Religion are the only drugs that can turn a man into whatever Ben Stabby is.

[radiclib]

5. This trait is rampant among his supporters

and the GOP base as well.

[JEB]

7. It worked quite well for Raygun and W.