Outsourcing Thought

Claire Standish: What's bizarre about you?
Allison Reynolds: He can't think for himself
Andrew Clark: She's right.
--The Breakfast Club

Gains to be had from specialization in combination with human tendency to economize scarce resources--including time and attention--find many people outsourcing their thinking on many issues to others. No issue provides a better example of this phenomenon than the so-called 'global warming' or 'climate change' proposition.

A popular mantra among proponents of the underlying thesis is that 'the science has been settled.' Yet, few climate change enthusiasts can recite the relevant science themselves. Instead, they usher in so-called experts to fill in the many blanks in their weak reasoning.

When you rely on others to do your thinking for you, then you leave yourself open to being played. Remember, however, that if you are played, you cannot say that you were deceived or that you were too busy to think things through.

Because God gave each of us the ability to think for ourselves, you have no one to blame but yourself.