Who said you can argue with crazy

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For every factoid discredited, the person has two more at his disposal, and he will casually toss them aside, one by one, until you understand that he has nothing invested in them.

This if the conversation even makes it that far. This inhibition may seem to run counter to the notion that Facebook has created a generation of unfiltered oversharers , highlighted by stories of young people posting incriminating pictures online.

I can say that I recently sat next to a woman on the bus as she described the toe procedure she was about to undergo, and I wish she had been limited to characters. But the two behaviors are not antithetical. A certain degree of safety is required to experiment with new personas and politics, a process of identity creation to which Sherry Turkle, author of Alone Together , attributes oversharing.

Only the people who agree with us will take the time to comment, we assume; the others will simply scroll on to the next items in their feeds. The two remained fast friends even after Brynner moved to the U.

It does, however, appear to be part of a trend of Brynner using Cocteau as cover when he wants to say something off-color or insulting. Jean told me that when you see yourself becoming famous, you should never let anybody think you go to the bathroom.

You must never allow your fans to connect you with excretion. For at least the last thirty years the quote has not been, so far as I can tell, ever attributed to Cocteau, Brynner, or Boyle. Instead, a wide variety of iterations have been attributed to a range of celebrities, including Kevin Garnett, George Carlin, and, most frequently, Mark Twain. Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

The conflation of argue and associate happened as early as , when, in his column for the student newspaper at University of North Carolina, Frank Crowther misquoted Cocteau.

Crowther would graduate later that year and begin a tragically short, but noteworthy career as a Democratic speechwriter and government bureaucrat. Pithy quotations are a crutch of mediocre newspaper columnists and Crowther was the first of many who would circulate this one, though the last appearance I can find with the original attribution to Cocteau comes from the Kaplan Herald in