steve kwan user experience designer

The uneducated masses

(January 6th, 2006 - 10:19AM)

The following conversation took place with one of my co-workers while walking to the office. I'm calling him Jimbo to maintain his privacy.

Steve: *makes a comment on someone's election bumper sticker*

Jimbo: "Uhh...are we having an election?"

Steve: "Oh, Jimbo."

Jimbo: "Heh, heh...what are we voting on?"

Steve: "Oh, Jimbo."

For any of my Canadian readers who are in Jimbo's position: yes, we are having an election. You really should know that. How can you not know that? Don't you read the news? Don't you watch TV? Don't you talk to other people? Don't you surf the Internet?

With all of the resources we have for accessing information, it's amazing that people are still uninformed about issues like this.