whisky-dave wrote:
> "Tiny Human Ferret" <ixnayamspay_klaatu@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:4355983D.5080903@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > The Insatiable Maw of Fascinet wrote:
> >> Pyromancer wrote:
> >>
>
> >>
> >> Everyone thinks all the time, they're mostly just bad at it.*
> >
> > This is what bothers me: it's probably not all that hard to start off
> > early,
>
> But this is no longer allowed people especially the young are
> protected and removed from experiencing anything and without
> that experience they aren't learning about the real world, but learing
how
> to live in an artifical one that doesn't work they way they expect.
>
They tell me that's what's making us smarter.
If you never have to deal with the real world, you're much more likely
to do well on the SAT.
>
> > You know, things like asking one's self if one's making assumption,
basic
> > checking of logic, and for the more studious, some understanding of
formal
> > fallacies of rhetoric, etc.
> >
> > How to start a trend?
>
> Good advertising methods or should that be underhanded and sly
advertising.
>
If you have lots of ads on TV showing ****d girls going for the
calculator programmers, that'll turn everyone into trim, mustachioed
logic machines.
It's not underhanded, it's not sly, but it works for cars, cigarettes,
and wa****ng machines.
>
> >> * In a way that's not really fitting; people think poorly because
> >> thinking poorly is advantageous.
>
> Especially for those that do.
>
Only for those that do and don't die from it.
Unfortunately, we've almost eliminated the second part.
We need intelligent and courageous people, but intelligence allows
rationality, and rationality makes us cowards. We needed, therefore, a
way in which to , and the Zahavis have given it to us: women like
courageous men, and to prove that they're courageous, men do dumb
things.
"What made you think you could jump S**** River Canyon?" asked the
re****ter.
"Do you know who the hell I am?" answered Evil Knievil.
He's 68 years old, and teenage chicks dig him, still. Our mistake,
evolutionarily, is to invent a government that wouldn't let someone
like this attempt to jump the grand canyon.
We have to allow people to do dumb things. Do you want to surf
Hurricane Rita? More power to you, Bucky! Someone like that shouldn't
have been arrested.
If a kid dips his dick into molten lead when he's making toy soldiers,
so much the better. He'll save us all money in the long run, and the
rest of us will get a good laugh.
Let people be morons; remove the labels from appliances that tell
people to refrain from making toast in the shower.
We'll all be better off.
-F
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