Think how much navigational knowledge is embedded in a GPS…knowledge that, once upon a time (not too long ago) the navigator actually had to know for himself.

I saw an article someone had posted down at the marina suggesting that boaters/yachtsmen really should have a backup in case their GPS failed. The suggestion was that they should get a second GPs….

I remember reading somewhere (G.K. Chesterton?) that cavemen needed an enormous storehouse of knowledge just to know how to survive without all the tools we have at our disposal today.

A counter argument is that people today are more stupid than they were in older times because modern society enables (important word, that) them to survive by putting Darwin’s Law on hold.

I hold up “limousine liberals”, “academics” and the “progressive/left” as exhibit #1, #2 and #3 for the prosecution.

http://westernrifleshooters.blogspot.com/2009/08/beck-list-of-books.html

Too many of our “educators”–mainly K-12 but even some college professors–tend to assume that we are infinitely smarter than people of earlier times and have little or nothing to learn from them. See my post about temporal bigotry.

Yea for Jane Austen! I’ve never been a fan; but, over the years I’ve learned that her work is Great Literature.

Despite the fact that so many on the left, especially in academic circles dismiss such classics as written by “dead, white men” (or in Jane Austin’s case a dead, white woman) and, therefore, in their opinion not relevant, it really is just as relevant today as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow. And, Book, you have now given a perfect example of why such Great Literature is considered Great Literature. It really is timeless.

BTW, my first car was an old Chevy Nova that I bought from a Jane Austen fan – it had a bumper sticker that read “All things considered, I’d rather be reading Jane Austen.”