"Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the
power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and
the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age
of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial
stupidity."
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell1.asp
Random thoughts
NO MATTER WHAT YOU SAY, some people will hear only what they want
to hear. Old age at least gives me an excuse for not being very
good at things that I was not very good at when I was young.
It is amazing how many people consider it an answer to criticism
to call it "bashing."
Apologizing for sins committed by other people in the past seems
to have become a political vogue. Considering all the wrongs
committed around the world for centuries -- against people of
every race, color, creed, national origin, and sexual orientation
-- if we are going to apologize for all that, we are not going to
have any time left to get anything else done.
Why do the people who create computer software inundate you with
so many confusing features that it is an ordeal to cut your way
through the jungle of options to try to reach the simple thing
you want to do?
It is painful watching Senator John McCain straining to keep
himself in the public eye while the Republicans' choice of a vice
presidential candidate is pending -- all the while protesting
that he doesn't want the nomination.
First, there was his gratuitous revisit to South Carolina to
flip-flop on the confederate flag issue, and then came his
well-publicized visit to the prison where he was once held in
Vietnam -- something he never did in all the years before.
The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so
successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of
things -- and see no reason why their opinions should not be
taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what
they are talking about.
Being in the right place at the right time plays a bigger role in
our lives than many are ready to admit. Earle Combs played center
field for the New York Yankees for more than a decade and had the
same lifetime batting average as Joe DiMaggio (.325). Yet Combs
is virtually forgotten, because he played in the shadow of Babe
Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
Doesn't anyone find it strange that Attorney General Janet Reno
gave us sermonettes on "the rule of law" in the Elian Gonzalez
case at the very same time when she was announcing that those who
violated federal laws by making Linda Tripp's private personnel
records public would not be prosecuted?
The political left's answer to Third World poverty is classic:
Let Third World countries welsh on their loans, but don't let
them sell the fruits of their labor in the United States, and
harass multinational corporations that provide some of the best
jobs in poor countries. What these policies have in common,
besides being crazy, is that they all enable the left to feel
morally superior.
Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the
power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and
the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age
of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial
stupidity.
One of the great meaningless phrases of our times is: "I take
full responsibility." This does not mean that you are prepared to
pay the consequences for what you have done. On the contrary,
this statement is usually offered instead of taking the
consequences.
If you don't believe that the relationship between men and women
is being cheapened, non-stop around the clock, then just go
channel-surfing on cable TV at any hour of the day or night.
Despite both liberals and conservatives piling on Hillsdale
College, because of a personal tragedy there, I would send my
children to Hillsdale over many other colleges with bigger names.
A recent television re-run showed the Lone Ranger shooting a gun
out of the bad guy's hand, while galloping full speed on his
horse Silver. Maybe that is why a generation raised on this kind
of stuff has such unrealistic expectations of police shooting.
The political left loves to refer disdainfully to people who have
"faith in the free market." Mountains of empirical evidence from
countries around the world on the superior performances of free
markets are thus dismissed as mere faith. Meanwhile, the repeated
failures of government-run economies are attributed to personal
mistakes by Stalin, Mao or others -- thereby preserving the
left's faith in political control of economic decisions, if only
the right people were in charge.
When you look at the actual consequences of "corporate greed"
versus corporate philanthropy, you find that greed doesn't do
nearly as much harm.
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