Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
3rd Earl Russell of Kingston
There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.
The convictions of the multitudes … are sincere convictions. They are, as we know, sometimes disastrously erroneous; but they are also disastrously honest.
The public is a bad guesser.
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
The Matrix itself is not some external evil, but rather an outcome of our own error, our karmic payoff of past actions. Not merely illusion, it is an allusion to a founding myth of our culture.
When all are wrong, everyone is right.
Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.
Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.
