What’s All the Hoopla in Quebec About?

The main thing that separates animals from people, is not their ability to react impulsively and emotionally, it’s their inability to think.

Are Canadians animals?

A reasonably intelligent person hears about all the commotion in Quebec over increasing tuition fees and decides to read a few news articles about the situation so they can decide who the more reasonable party is: the government or the students?

So, obviously, the first thing they want to know is: How much does it cost to put someone through university? Not the amount they charge the students of course, but the real cost of a degree before government subsidies. This is the most basic piece of information one would need to have to be able to decide what they thought about the government footing the bill for university. Of course it would also be nice to have some information on the cost of student living during this period and about how the increases in tuition rates have matched inflation.

So, is the reason no one is talking about this because … ?

A) Canadians are animals. They are comfortable having opinions which are emotional reactions based on loosely understood ideology without making any attempt to really understand any of the details of the issues they are PASSIONATE about.

B) Canadians are BELIEVED to be animals by the journalists. The journalists believe even rudimentary intellectualism is beyond Canadians. They assume facts would generate a sense of consternation in readers who are used to being led by their emotions and won’t know how to ‘process’ the ‘information’.

C) The journalists themselves are animals and are just communicating their extremely limited understanding of the world around them. In spite of presumably elite competition within journalism, America and its premier publications perpetually drain our brightest talent and what’s left over are uninspired C-list hacks. They have no intellectual curiosity about the stories they write and no motivation to pursue any extra, hard details beyond the most superficial coverage of a story.

I don’t think people are inherently as dumb as they end up being because of the way they’re treated. Not everyone is brilliant but they’re certainly capable of having opinions based on facts. I’m not sure if anyone is at ‘fault’ for the current situation or whether intellectual participation in society is just a flower that hasn’t bloomed yet. A child rather than an animal.