Overstatement - a sign that the cracks are appearing

 Whether it happens in the pulpit or from the preaching chairs at kindergarten, we plebs should be aware that when all the noisy ones start overstating and oversimplifying, they not only can't be trusted, but they should not have any power over us. 

We may realize if we look and think more clearly than they are  that they don't infact know what they are doing . 

Someone who did know what he was doing

One of the best things I ever saw on Wikipedia ( a great thing) was a 20 page outline of depression and why it was a growing phenomenon and disease in the West ---so direct and helpful in helping us understand and deal with it.

It was punchy and pointed because it was written by someone who not only studied the medicine and science side, but who had spent his life helping people . It was taken down because he didn't have enough citations. (I don't have time for that either --that would mean spending life in a Uni and also all dealing with the pedantic naysayers on the net )

We live in a time in history when you are not encouraged to speak freely , when the conventional wisdom comes from kindergarten ( hoping someone will approve your distilled wisdom through citation - ) and worse ,that ever present lazy thinking cynical silencer who has all their lives not made sense of anything and has all the changes of cul de sac ideas to prove it.

Real wisdom does come from reason science and the pen , but only the free pen.!!!!

As we all should know, if one of us speaks up in the face of tyranny , we may well be speaking up for most of us.... and the truth . Overstatement is listed as an example of someone gripped by their need to try and retain their own sense of power over us

Real wisdom does come from reason science and the pen , but only the free pen.!!!!

You can pick fanatics by the way they repeat themselves

Barrie Cassidy was on the hunt for confirmation that He as a statistician  had a point to make ;  Not one worth making mate; it was embarrassing to watch  . Similarly the man who is always repeating himself  David Maher wastes public time trying to make yet another point in defence of everything he's against . One week after half the world saw "Insiders" turn into outsiders ABCTV heads could do without this tiresome and predictable defensive talk from their insiders .
Barry Cassidy should know too that his bright shirts are a giveaway.  Just as he should know that a real economist should talk stats and real scientists should talk science . (When  will the ABC get properly scientific and let a practical scientist run their science agendas ) .
Barrie , by letting himself and David Maher wax lyrical and long ( what a pain !- last Sunday ) on subjects they clearly know little about , these wannabes demonstrate that Insiders is really outside of some of the more critical debates going on around them ( they wouldn't even touch marriage --as  techno phobes- they only believe only in new clothes? which kind of leaves them well out front with little to go on with---- at times ) .