Codexes of imbicility

There is surely some thing malevolent in the way that the BBC at least uses opinion polls. they use them as if they mean something. Not necessarily awful if daft, and yet it has one strangely horrid consequence. Ask people what they think on the street, and they will of course produce not only a rat of contraction, but also the first element that comes into their mind. i mean how many of us run after the pollster shouting I have changed by mind?
The problem is of course that the first thing that comes into ones mind, in most cases is the least sensible 'default position' of ones thought. these position has a character all of their our. they are often more angry than the normal mind, and more right-wing, by nature intolerant. all of which is dandy (and inevitable) the problem comes when they are pedalled as truth. A truth known of us share even if we would tell it to a pollster), a truth that then is taken as gospel and warps everything.


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