The following is a repost from FantasyDouche.com, original post date April 17, 2012.
Here’s my general outlook on conventional wisdom: It might be right… or it might not be. But I don’t have a lot of reverence for conventional wisdom. I just think there are too many examples of truths that we took for granted at one point, only to find out later that those truths weren’t actually… wait for it… true. Probably my favorite example of the idiocy of conventional wisdom is the fact that Galileo was sentenced to house arrest for supporting the heliocentric view of the solar system and questioning the earth-centric view.