On 01/15/2013 08:35 AM, Mark Woodward wrote:
A couple conversations have touched upon this, tangentially perhaps,
but I think it is important.
When I was a kid, my dad said to me, as I imagine many working class
fathers said to their sons of this particular generation, You have to
be rich
I think a significant percentage of that is really just a case of looking
at the past through nostalgia-tinted glasses. America has had a widespread
tradition of anti-intellectualism since long before the Revolutionary War.
Respect for intellectual achievement blossoms briefly every now and then,
For some fun, check out The Marching Morons by Cyril M. Kornbluth
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons). I'd buy that for a
quarter!
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Jonathan M. Prigot jpri...@verizon.net
On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 13:36 -0500, John Abreau wrote:
I think a significant percentage of that is really
Jonathan M. Prigot wrote:
For some fun, check out The Marching Morons by Cyril M. Kornbluth
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons). I'd buy that for a
quarter!
Or check out the movie Idiocracy. It has electrolytes!
Warning: Even years after seeing Idiocracy, you'll frequently get
On Jan 15, 2013 8:35 AM, Mark Woodward ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
Why do I need to know that?
In my experience this often occurs when I'm already engaged in an unrelated
highly intellectual pursuit and my next thought is I thought this was a
solved problem. I don't have time for this.
You have
