August 17, 2005 @ 10:59 am
I don’t know why the news of the day so often calls to mind the wisdom of Ambrose Bierce, but that’s the way of it some days.
Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot’s activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions of opinion and taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.
------The Devil’s Dictionary
