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Never underestimate the US crackpot population, we have cornered the market on nuts.
by wyldfire 5y ago
Never underestimate the US crackpot population, we have cornered the market on nuts.
- nobody9999 5y ago>Never underestimate the US crackpot population, we have cornered the market on nuts. For the most part, it's hard to underestimate individual crackpots. Take them as a whole, and it's a different story however. That said, Peter Medawar had it right[0]: "The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put together." N.B.: I am an American. [0] https://www.quotetab.com/quote/by-peter-medawar/the-usa-is-so-enormous-and-so-numerous-are-its-schools-colleges-and-religious-s https://www.quotetab.com/quote/by-peter-medawar/the-usa-is-s...
- mbg721 5y agoWe Americans always think that we're unique, and thinking that we're unique in having crackpots is yet one more manifestation of that.