June 2011
just say 'i dont know'
“We seem to be obsessed with opinions because we take them to be a marker of individual independence, distinctiveness and reasoned intelligence. Expressing opinions is how we also express our freedom of conscience and flex our political rights. But when we’re obliged to have an opinion on everything, all the time, our expressions of conscience are less about independent thinking than about making stuff up.”
“We have as much of a right to our ignorance and indifference as we do to speak our minds. We’re free to say ‘I don’t know.’”
When my parents ask me who I’m talking to on the internet.
