Rob's Blog

On the radio I heard someone, it really doesn’t matter who, saying:

Everybody knows that the accident rate is very high for people who have recently passed their driving test, say in the last twelve or eighteen months, so clearly something must be done.

Everybody Knows X So Something Must Be Done is the mantra of inconsequential bores everywhere desperate to make themselves seem important. What’s sad is that there is a never ending supply of them, and no matter how hard everybody else tries to ignore them they actually succeed in gaining power by feeding off of one another in an evil coalition of campaigners, journalists and politicians.

It works because politicians choose to behave as if the media represents the views of the public, and the media chooses to behave as if campaigners represent the views of the public. In reality, nobody really cares apart from people trying to forge careers by acting as if they do.

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