We see this happen every day, but this is not my original observation. For one thing, I have never taken a comedian seriously. Credit for the anecdote goes to the American actor Will Rogers. His thought seems relevant and on-target today, even though Rogers died in 1935, making his comment most of a century old.
Rogers apparently had a sackful of these worldly observations; two others that I have dug out of that bag set the stage for today's writing. Here they are:
- Everyone is ignorant, only in different subjects.
- The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.
