Being An Automatic Expert In America - On Everything

RUSH LIMBAUGH spent two semesters in college, failed everything, and never ended up with even a single college credit. Nothing in chemistry, physics, or biology, let alone basket weaving, which you'd think even he could pass. And yet, Rush Limbaugh knows, he just knows, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that climate change is a hoax, a fraud, a conspiracy perpetrated by the liberal community for the purpose of encouraging big government, and bringing socialism, in all its evil, to America. The fact that America is and has long since been utterly inundated with socialism, public roads, police and fire protection, to name just an example or two, and that all of it works like a charm, escapes Rush, like most else. The fact that he hasn't the faintest idea whether climate change is real, and therefore needs to learn it from other people, seems lost on him as well.He just decided, all on his own, and that's that, which is remarkable, considering his lack of education in science. In this, Rush is a perfect symptom of American arrogance; no matter what he happens to be arguing about, no matter what he believes or does not believe, he is an expert on it. We all, at least in this country, tend to become experts right quick like when we get into a little disagreement. We Americans don't seem to know when to say "I don't know", we don't seem to even know how to say it. and ever so often, 'its the right thing to say. Everyone in America can morph into a historian, a doctor, or a lawyer at the drop of a hat, which gives us Americans a remarkable intellectual flexibility, as well as a tendency to extend all quarrels to their most extreme possible limits, and fuel divisiveness. It may not be possible to know for certain whether there exists man made climate change, but surely we can all understand that it is utterly impossible to know that it does not exist, because you can never prove a negative, and well, you never know, it just may. Rush Limbaugh is a cause and a symptom, all rolled into one. He treats his radio audience like he is some sort of leader, or scholarly teacher, which is a joke. Rush the famous entertainer, famous for being famous. How many of those do we have in America? Several million? You conservatives simply must stop treating Rush as your personal guru, leader, lord, and savior. The adulation warps his mind. You can do better. And remember, even experts make mistakes, and need to ask questions.