Suburban legends fill a void. Many people surrounded by the peace and prosperity of the modern western world have no idea how they got so lucky. They've learned everything they know about individual liberty and free market capitalism from collectivized bureaucrats at government institutions . It's as if the west is rich because we regularly sacrifice virgins to the volcano god. Ignorance begets superstition.
Superstition begets gullibility.
The big lie is substituted for facts and suburban legends are accepted a priori . The muse for this article is a regular poster on what I consider an intelligent web site. I'm not going to name him for the purposes of this column because his views are all too common in the mainstream of the web community. Notice that he not only names two choices, he indicates why he has chosen Microsoft . Why in the wide world of sports he believes that the members of the RIAA would turn artist promotion over to lobbyists and lawyers is not explained.