*Do Goanetters agree?* *Fri Mar 20 09:29:36 PDT 2009*
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:05:21 -0000From: "RGrootendorst" < rgrootendorst at btclick.com <http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org> >The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable onepersists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progressdepend on the unreasonable man. Mario responds:Rita,With all due respect, you start with a premise that makes no sense, i.e. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable onepersists in trying to adapt the world to himself."When a premise makes no sense, how can the conclusion, "Therefore, all progress depend (sic) on the unreasonable man." make any sense??? Joao responds: I think it was George Bernard Shaw, a Nobel Prize Literature winner, who made that remark! But, I'm getting old, and could be wrong! The young, of course, are never wrong. Sometimes, logic and life go in opposite directions. What GBS meant was that the reasonable human being has his or her priorities right! First, food, clothing, shelter, and so on while the unreasonable man (or woman) say, poet, dreamer or other unmentionables, who are dreaming of world peace, and so on, while all the time unable to make ends meet .... It is because of these kind of people our world has made any progress. Yes, they are the salt of the earth .... Enjoy! Joao Barros Pereira [image: Previous]<http://www.goanet.org/post.php?name=News&list=goanet&info=2009-March&post_id=175492>
