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By: suek

suek — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:46:51 +0000

Yes – I’ve heard that. And of course, the older you get, with any luck, the more you’ll learn and the more you’ll realize how much you don’t know.

Which explains why only teenagers know everything!

By: Mike Devx

Mike Devx — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:32:07 +0000

suek, i believe the saying is, “the more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.”

(That doesn’t look quite grammatically correct, but that’s as close as I can get to the actual saying.)

By: suek

suek — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:26:47 +0000

You know…I don’t think of myself as an “intellectual”. However many things in life _are_ relative, and I suspect that Book – and you – are both at least a generation behind many of us who comment here. To be honest, I think that the thoughtfulness of the population in general has diminished alarmingly over the last 40 – 50 years, and I can see that it’s entirely possible that those of us who were merely average 50 years ago might _seem_ “intellectual”. The bad news is that in all probability it’s due to the lowering of the level of intellectual pursuits among the general public, not to individual accomplishment.

The other possibility is that as we get older we accumulate a lot of “stuff” in our brains – and several of us, at least, are old enough to have accumulated “stuff” in our memories that younger people have to learn in a disconnected way. To you it’s history…to some of us it’s memories or experience. Personally, as I’ve gotten older I’ve learned a lot of miscellaneous information, and the amazing thing is that as much as I’ve learned, I’ve also learned that the amount I don’t know just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

Life is good!

By: kali

kali — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:49:04 +0000

Suek, I spent most of my young adulthood pretending I liked reading Camus. It’s been a long haul back to normalcy for me, and I’m scared of anything that threatens it–such as associating with people who talk about politics and culture without using the words “narrative” and “authenticity” and “inclusive”

By: Soccer Dad

Soccer Dad — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:33:52 +0000

Council speak 06/16/09…

The council has spoken. For the second week in a row the winning council entry was by Mere Rhetoric, The WH’s Eight-Step Plan For Detonating The US-Israel Relationship, which lists the different ways the White House might play hardball with Israel. Th…

By: addison

addison — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:08:02 +0000

I apologize for almost never commenting but yours is a site I visit at least thrice daily.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:18:37 +0000

I enjoy your topics, and appreciate the civil tone here, though what did happen to Oz?

There’s No Place like Home.

By: SADIE

SADIE — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:18:30 +0000

suek…

Are you kidding, it’s been the ultimate intellectual challenge for me to think before I write and edit out what usually litters my personal emails.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:16:39 +0000

Should I have garlic in my pocket when I talk to you, Charles?

Try a pocket nuke, Book. I assure you, it works better.

I think I’ve been here for years. And that is kind of long… come to think of it. Which I don’t.

Oh well, back to sleep.

By: suek

suek — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:34:32 +0000

>>You all are *intellectuals*?>>

Book is very generous.

On the other hand, the ability to string together some multiple of sentences, none of which contain the usual four letter words or hissed “…ist!” just _may_ qualify many of us as intellectuals. That does lower the bar a bit though, doesn’t it!

In truth, it seems that the level of discourse required to qualify as intellectual may have dropped somewhat.

>>Shakes head, backs slowly away muttering>>

Come on back! (Fake it…no one will know!)