Kurt Vonnegut: "Your guess Is As Good As Mine"

[JohnnyRingo]

This is the last few paragraphs of a very well written short essay on how politicians willingly ignore science and knowledge to adhere to the voters ignorant beliefs or their contributors nefarious goals.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2421/

Excerpt:
Do you remember those doctors a few years back who got together and announced that it was a simple, clear medical fact that we could not survive even a moderate attack by hydrogen bombs? They were not welcome in Washington, D.C.

Even if we fired the first salvo of hydrogen weapons and the enemy never fired back, the poisons released would probably kill the whole planet by and by.

What is the response in Washington? They guess otherwise. What good is an education? The boisterous guessers are still in charge--the haters of information. And the guessers are almost all highly educated people. Think of that. They have had to throw away their educations, even Harvard or Yale educations, to become guessers. If they didn't do that, there is no way their uninhibited guessing could go on and on and on.

Please, don't you do that. But let me warn you, if you make use of the vast fund of knowledge now available to educated persons, you are going to be lonesome as hell. The guessers outnumber you--and now I have to guess--about ten to one.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Vonnegut is always correct.

Another home run from the master!

[Tsiyu]

2. Vonnegut for President

I say

[PDJane]

3. Love Vonnegut...........

He's got intelligence, insight and wit.......a rare combination, it seems.

[formercia]

4. And so it goes

well said.