H Veeder <[email protected]> quoted some good and bad ideas:
> On your own, avoid homogenous books, films, music, food, sex, media and > people. > What does non-homogenous sex mean? With other people? My wife would object. I do not see what music or food has to do with being open to ideas. Arthur Clarke reportedly ate a typical British meat and potatoes diet his whole life, but he was broad minded about other things. I also know what I like and I like what I know, as the Brits say. I listen mainly to classical music. Most popular music sounds like abominable noise to me. Japanese popular music, being broadcast at this moment in the annual Kohaku Uta Gassen, is saccharine glop. New & unusually people -- *that* I agree with. I don't actually like real, living people, because they are boring. I prefer dead people. In books. People lived hundreds of years ago in different countries give a whole new perspective. > Actually experience life by going to places you don’t usually go, spending > time with people you don’t usually spend time with. > I get lost when I try to go to places I don't usually go. I show up at the airport the day after the flight. As I said, spending time with people who lived hundreds of years ago in Japan, Italy or Boston is an eye-opener. As Logan P. Smith put it, "People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading." - Jed
