Aristotle
Aristotle’s intellectual brilliance has shown for over two thousand years. Even so, perhaps his wisest statement can be paraphrased thusly:
“All I know is that I know nothing.”
Where does that put you and me?
I guess we can say we know a little bit more than he did. Surely Wikipedia contains enough information so that anyone with broadband knows a little bit about something.
What occurs to me is thank God someone is writing this stuff down.
Each successive generation of humanity stands on shoulders of the last. But it isn’t making us any smarter. We just have the answers to the tests now.
It’s possible that the evolution of the species as a whole will be the eventual source of our deliverance from catastrophic global failure, but this evolution certainly isn’t happening on an individual level.
I’m afraid more likely is that the petty nature of the individual will prevent any meaningful change. The selfishness that above all guides us, hard-wired into our DNA since we were little four-legged mammals and necessary for individual survival, will be our collective undoing.
They say that if you put two lobsters in a bucket of water neither will escape. Whenever one of them makes a break for freedom he will be pulled back by his jealous peer.
Are we enlightened men or simple lobsters? I think the answer lies somewhere in between.
“All I know is that I know nothing.”
Where does that put you and me?
I guess we can say we know a little bit more than he did. Surely Wikipedia contains enough information so that anyone with broadband knows a little bit about something.
What occurs to me is thank God someone is writing this stuff down.
Each successive generation of humanity stands on shoulders of the last. But it isn’t making us any smarter. We just have the answers to the tests now.
It’s possible that the evolution of the species as a whole will be the eventual source of our deliverance from catastrophic global failure, but this evolution certainly isn’t happening on an individual level.
I’m afraid more likely is that the petty nature of the individual will prevent any meaningful change. The selfishness that above all guides us, hard-wired into our DNA since we were little four-legged mammals and necessary for individual survival, will be our collective undoing.
They say that if you put two lobsters in a bucket of water neither will escape. Whenever one of them makes a break for freedom he will be pulled back by his jealous peer.
Are we enlightened men or simple lobsters? I think the answer lies somewhere in between.
posted by J. Bovenizer | 8:00 PM
4 Comments:
Poor old Grady Stiles. He looks happy enough considering the blundering of his previous 3 generations. Perhaps he managed to scramble over the edge of the bucket. He probably outweighed the other lobster boys!
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Don't feel bad for Grady Stiles. The most famous of the carnival lobster people was known to be a real jerk and very abusive to the women who loved him (unbelievably enough).
The new face of the condition is Bree Walker, the San Diego newswoman.
Poor old Bree Walker spawned 2 lobsterchildren of her own. She has been criticised by some. What do you think?
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