“The tragedy of the Internet is that it has elevated the village idiot to the status of a bearer of truth.”
“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak—people who once only talked at the bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. They were quickly silenced. Now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It’s the invasion of the idiots.”
Making this point certainly did not make me popular on the Internet back in the day. For a more serious treatment of the crisis, see this.




It’s worth noting that NYU, MIT, Rutgers, UT and Harvard (prior to pausing admissions) all list the GRE as required…