The Sheer Laziness of the Endangered Journalist

I really don't know where to begin... I really don't have the energy anymore to deal with lazy, selfish, callus, hateful readers... ;->

My point being that we are all lazy. I hate hearing a talking head on the television repeat again some crap about "American innovation" as they are actually proving the point that they are not innovative, that they are just going to repeat the same thing that somebody else said, collect their paycheck and do the same thing they did the night before, the same thing that their neighbor did.

I seeded a complex piece about economics and disinformation and obfuscation and deceit by omission conveyed by much of the "data" and "statistics" and the lazy groupthink exhibited everywhere; and a person commented:

Who is this person and why do we care about her blog? Does she have credentials? I mean, who the heck is she? Is she a friend of yours, perhaps?

I can't even find a date on the blog. I see dates on comments, but no date pertaining to her blog.

No discusion or comment on the complex concepts conveyed by the actual words, just that comment, which displays, to me, a slavish commitment by that person to feel validated by mindlessly agreeing with a writer who is well known, like a "groupie", and it should be obvious that I believe that commentator was being lazy and didn't want to actually discuss ideas.

The majority of people are lazy, and don't actually want to think about ideas, they often just want to feel that they are part of a group. Once they feel they are part of a group they can then attack anyone who isn't part of the group. So I have already envisioned all of the groupthink criticisms about this seed ... with no acknowledgement of the critic commentator's own slavish groupthink commitment to the mainstream media.

Those are just a fraction of the thoughts I have reading this article.