Brexit Metaphor No 7
Remember when Geri Halliwell left the Spice Girls because she thought she would have an amazing solo career? This is what a clever Remainer put on a poster at the People's Vote March in London on October 20.
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| Poster at People's Vote March (Photo : Eoin O'Callaghan) |
There is something called the Dunning-Kruger hypothesis. It basically says:
"Smart people don't know how smart they are, so they overestimate the others.
Dumb people don't know how dumb they are, so they overestimate themselves."
Charles Darwin put it similarly: "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."
Isn't Brexit a classic example of such ignorance-begotten confidence?
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(This article is part of a daily series, with 154 more Brexit Metaphors to follow until Brexit day, March 29, 2019.)
"Ignorance begets confidence", said Charles Darwin and Bertrand Russell.
ReplyDelete"Brexit means Brexit", said someone else.