I’ve been thinking lately about what thinking people know. After all, I regularly read comments on various websites to the effect that “thinking people know” this or that.
There’s a problem. I rarely agree with what the commenter claims “thinking people know.” I am forced to the only logical conclusion: I am not a thinking person.
To fill the gaps in my knowledge, I thought it might be worthwhile to scour the internet to learn what I would know if I were a thinking person. So I did a google search for the phrase “thinking people know.” Here’s a sampling of what I found in the first forty or fifty results. I’ve included all but a handful of uninteresting facts.