enough to turn
everyone's attention to value of self-critical thinking wouldn't it?!;-)
Phil
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aving old scores alone, and prohibit new
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Phil
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It was a good rant, wasn't it...
Since Steve saw fit to bring up "willful ignorance", and Marcus, Sarah
Palin: what do you want to bet that McCain's
creationist-the-world-is-6,000-years-old
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Dale -
I think you're being too generous. I'm afraid that many fall into a
category I'
ls for it as a new horizon for of
speedy (and maybe thoughtless) research.
Phil
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Good..
Jack
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Few people think more than two or three
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 12:39 PM, glen e. p. ropella
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> So the first step is for each individual to accept their responsibility
> to think/speak critically at every opportunity. The next step is to
> package such critical thinking inside an infectious wrapper so that
> it
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an
international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among
themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.
Christina S
Hope you took a laptop with you, Glen. This would make great pub fare:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/04/tina-fey-as-sarah-palin-i_n_131964.html
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 1:39 PM, glen e. p. ropella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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> I'm off for a pint at the pub.
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> glen e. p. ropella,
Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10/05/2008 12:19 PM:
> I'm afraid, as Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy, and he is us."
Excactly! So the first step is for each individual to accept their
responsibility think/speak critically at every opportunity. The next
step is to package such critical t
Excuse me? Mitigate willful ignorance? You must be new around here.
;-}
I'm afraid, as Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy, and he is us."
I suspect couple of hundred million years is what it's going to take to
begin to "mitigate willful ignorance" on this particular ball of dirt.
On Sun,
Thus spake Marcus G. Daniels circa 10/05/2008 12:07 PM:
> glen e. p. ropella wrote:
>> Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10/05/2008 11:07 AM:
>>
>>> You want to talk about willful ignorance? Take a good look around you.
>>>
>>
>> Exactly. The trick is: What can we do about it?
>>
> Hmm,
glen e. p. ropella wrote:
Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10/05/2008 11:07 AM:
You want to talk about willful ignorance? Take a good look around you.
Exactly. The trick is: What can we do about it?
Hmm, Chelsea Clinton went to work for a hedge fund instead of going in
to politi
Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 10/05/2008 11:07 AM:
> You want to talk about willful ignorance? Take a good look around you.
Exactly. The trick is: What can we do about it?
I have this problem with many of my friends. They're all quite bright
(in my opinion). But there's an emergent patter
It was a good rant, wasn't it...
Since Steve saw fit to bring up "willful ignorance", and Marcus, Sarah
Palin: what do you want to bet that McCain's
creationist-the-world-is-6,000-years-old
gun-toting-I-can-see-Russia-from-my-window sidekick garners approximately
50% of the vote next month?
As M
Steve Smith wrote:
The point of my talk of ignorance (willful and otherwise) is that to
the extent we are complicit in our own problems, we *do* have the
ability to retrieve some of our power from those we have given it to
out of our own *willful ignorance*.
Good rant. :-)
I''ll only add th
Marcus wrote:
If it is evolution at work, then perhaps the good cops and the bad
cops are in some sense the good guys, and it is everyone else that is
making the market (so to speak), inefficient.
We certainly have our part in it. We deserve the "leaders" we have.
Fool me once, shame on
Steve Smith wrote:
Yes, and it is not surprising that we would "evolve" personality types
to fill this niche.
[..]
The closest thing I have to an answer (for myself) is to realize that
anyone in power is by definition a salesman... they will say and do
what it takes to get us to buy their prod
Dale -
I think you're being too generous. I'm afraid that many fall into a
category I'll call "Maliciously aware".
"Willful Ignorance", in my vernacular is a dual of "Malicious
Awareness". Just as most good physical comedians and rodeo clowns
have to be "really, really good, to be tha
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