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Originally Posted by Ransom
Didn't your mama ever tell you anything about jumping off bridges just because others do it? The day you start worrying about making your own outlook match those of others is the day you may as well stop reading because you're incapable of thinking for yourself. Last I heard, the majority is just as often wrong as they are right. A thousand years from now people will still be quoting Lewis, Twain, and Chesterton. I doubt very much that anyone in AD 3011 will know there ever was a man named Hermann Hesse.
"Public opinion is a flitting thing, but truth outlasts the sun...." ~ Emily
Dickinson
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I do not make a habit of jumping off bridges but I do tend to give initial credence to the opinions of experts in their field - like doctors, car mechanics or literary theorists - people who have spent a considerable time developing their expertise - until and unless I have a specific reason for dismissing or arguing against them. What I don't do is display my arrogant ignorance by making stupid statements dismissing the history of literary criticism or making unsupportable and ridiculous predictions that are less that worthless.