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Thomas Holbrook II | *NIXEDBLOG 3.0

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Blog of helios: The Thin Line Between Victim and Idiot.

I’ve seen it before.  People who grab the anti-bacterial wipes so their shopping carts are “clean.”  People who don’t consider others around them.  People who refuse to go with a Linux hosting package even though they’ll never see the command line.  What is it called?  People who refuse to think for themselves.  Is it really too much to ask?

When people argue that a certain course of action violates the Constitution, the response they’ll likely get is, “So what?”  We’ve gone from a nation of well informed citizenry, to those who are scared of knowledgeable computer users.  If Windows was being used, I’m pretty certain that the federal authorities wouldn’t have blinked at all.  No, they were using a Linux-based OS, and that has to make him a terrorist, right?  Is it really too much to ask?

Ken Starks is right.  One is only a victim until they realize they have a choice.  People are scared of something that they aren’t familiar with.  They’re scared of learning new things.  They say, “What?  Where’s the antivirus?  What about the games?”

Games?  Please!  If I wanted to play a game, I’d go to an arcade or buy/rent a gaming console.  The systems I use often don’t need antivirus due to the system’s design.  I don’t need to blow hundreds of dollars on an office suite.  It just makes no sense to do so.  I can surf the web, make graphics, record audio, and even edit video (that part is improving more and more as time passes).  Yet others want a “PC” or a “Mac.”  Is it really too much to ask?

You.  Yeah, I’m talking to you.  Is it that hard to just think for yourself?  Is that hard to try learning something new?  I learned how to read and write Koine Greek.  I can’t do it very well, but I do appreciate the language I know more than I did several months ago, because hundreds of years into the future, I know that others will have a hard time reading and translating this post.  Why won’t you learn something new?  Why do you have to treat people who know things you don’t understand as suspicious?  Why do you take your lack of knowledge out on everybody else?

Is it really too much to ask that you think for yourself for once in your life?  Really?  Is it too much?