"The Law of Morons". Put a group of very intelligent, well meaning people in a room together, put them on a committee or some governmental body that is devoid of guiding principles or merit-based decision making and "The Law of Morons" will prevail. The collective IQ will drop to the smallest shoe size in the room. And hope for loafers, because collectively this body won't be able to tie anything together - not even a single shoelace.
Davos Sherman Okst
Davos has stated this very well and with a bit of a twist it clearly can bee seen alive here.
I did not fully appreciate this principle until just recently while engaged in a post on EO. When I first found this forum, I thought it was a great resource for information for both new and old to the industry however, after seeing some of the opinions expressed by highly active members, it has become clear that too much misinformation is freely expressed without a check by the truth and when truth is offered, is is attacked as being something other than truth.
Newbies beware! Much of what you read, which is presented as profession opinions, is just that. Just an opinion. And we all know how common opinions are.
What you need to be aware of, and really can not truly know,
is what motivates the person starting the post/thread.
Is it ego? Self importance? Are they justifying their self worth?
Protecting their friend's esteem? Are they envious of others' success and attack to justify their failures? You can find it all right here.
Still others share similar motivations but want to help, rather than stymie, another's successes and experiences.
I have been amazed at some of the advice and opinions given here on EO. Some of which I am convinced were designed to discourage newbies from the industry altogether by offering incomplete or just bad advice. From what I can see, there are a lot of "old school" truckers who learned the hard way and don't like seeing younger or smarter people getting into the industry without suffering the same (or more) failures that they did.
The new rules being placed on the industry mean a lot of the old school truckers will be gone soon and replaced by these new, younger, and smarter truckers.
Maybe it's just in their dieing desperation that they hand out these bad opinions. Perhaps.
Or maybe I am wrong. Everyone here is as pure as the driven snow and there are no poorly contrived motivations at play here.
Or maybe they're just morons.
Just my opinion.
Davos Sherman Okst
Davos has stated this very well and with a bit of a twist it clearly can bee seen alive here.
I did not fully appreciate this principle until just recently while engaged in a post on EO. When I first found this forum, I thought it was a great resource for information for both new and old to the industry however, after seeing some of the opinions expressed by highly active members, it has become clear that too much misinformation is freely expressed without a check by the truth and when truth is offered, is is attacked as being something other than truth.
Newbies beware! Much of what you read, which is presented as profession opinions, is just that. Just an opinion. And we all know how common opinions are.
What you need to be aware of, and really can not truly know,
is what motivates the person starting the post/thread.
Is it ego? Self importance? Are they justifying their self worth?
Protecting their friend's esteem? Are they envious of others' success and attack to justify their failures? You can find it all right here.
Still others share similar motivations but want to help, rather than stymie, another's successes and experiences.
I have been amazed at some of the advice and opinions given here on EO. Some of which I am convinced were designed to discourage newbies from the industry altogether by offering incomplete or just bad advice. From what I can see, there are a lot of "old school" truckers who learned the hard way and don't like seeing younger or smarter people getting into the industry without suffering the same (or more) failures that they did.
The new rules being placed on the industry mean a lot of the old school truckers will be gone soon and replaced by these new, younger, and smarter truckers.
Maybe it's just in their dieing desperation that they hand out these bad opinions. Perhaps.
Or maybe I am wrong. Everyone here is as pure as the driven snow and there are no poorly contrived motivations at play here.
Or maybe they're just morons.
Just my opinion.
