Oh, just stop!

Evidently it takes a weekend for people to really work up a head of steam. It seems like most of my usual blogs/sites are worked up about something. In the end it always seems to boil down to the same thing: someone said something that offended me, and they’re a poopie-headed stink-bomb and need to shut up. One blogger had an interesting perspective, though, saying essentially “I’ve come to the conclusion that everyone is stupid, so why bother being offended by their stupidity?”

Of course, to listen to that person continue on, I suspect what he really means is that everyone is ignorant. They know only their own perspective, and seldom take the time to examine or imagine any other perspectives, so their opinions are more often than not going to be unsophisticated, naive, and absolutist. Blanket statements are almost guaranteed to be wrong, especially when dealing with people and human behavior.

Perhaps the only thing worse than blanket statements of the problem is blanket statements of the solution. This is not to say that we shouldn’t try to solve problems, but we can do without the blanket statement crowd. We need tough people who are able to dig deeper and get as much of a board perspective as possible.

What we don’t need is the constant screeching of the ignorant trying to distract and confuse and generally make it difficult for anything to get done. It’s because of the screechers that the “solutions” that end up getting put in place tend to only make things worse. Far too often the best thing that can happen is nothing. Better that than throwing half-baked, screecher-motivated snake-oil treatments at the problem and then blaming everyone else when it painfully encounters a much deeper and more complex reality than the ignorant care to acknowledge.

Yeah, it’s Monday. The screechers are out in force.