Gary Ceres is one of the coolest most awesomest cats that I’ve ever known. He and I met during our very first week at Elon (when it was still Elon College) and… well I can put it no plainer than this: I’ve learned lots of good stuff from him about making mischief for the publick good! Like that poster of Hillary Clinton that we put up all over campus on the night before the 1996 election, but I digress…
Anyhoo, Gary has written an excellent op-ed piece that has been published in the Washington Times News (out of Washington, North Carolina). In it he takes an incident that happened while he was recently traveling across the state, and develops it into an essay about how it is that we no longer think for ourselves… but rather let politicians and dumb machines do the “thinking” for us. Here’s an excerpt:
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