"When a man makes up his mind without evidence, no evidence disproving his opinion will change his mind."Robert Heinlein
I found this quote in a letter Heinlein wrote. I found the letter in the great blog Letters of Note. I read the blog via Networked Blogs.
This statement is true on several levels. While not all of them are thoroughly negative, in the case which caused Heinlein to say it, he certainly intended it as criticism.
Can you imagine having someone write a book, about you, without talking to you? And then having people believe it, just because it was written?
Oh, wait, that's the way the blogging world, and indeed much of the Internet, works. And it's how the paparazzi make their livings.
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