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I think adolts who have no sense of history are doing themselves and their children a

great disservice. Human memory can be entertaing, even useful for impressions of a time and place,

but so many people who are in their fifties nowadays have spent too


much time being "informated" by television, movies and poorly written

books, as well as newspapers and magazines of variable quality

and questionable value.

Too much have had their world view shaped by ads, fads,

and cads to an extent that if you point this out to them,

they can only respond that it's a matter of personal choice.

Like they would know what that were.


People who actually show any interest in the factoids and

figroids of history are accused and abused as triviots.

Like it was some sort of awtism.

Which it might be. Yet, many of these laughin Hyannis

actually sat around a table durnk or sotned (the pipple, not

the tabble) playing Trivial Pursuit for hours and years

without a quibble (but probably a burp or a giggle... or a burggle...

grupple?) until it became "unfathionable".

Now, far be it from me (please pass it over, will you?)

to decry the importance of fathion in this patht thentury...

gotta stop watching "Life of Bwian", I do.

Previous centuries have had their own series of fads, fashions

and attractions, many of which would seem absolutely silly

today.

Yet, the last fifty years have held advances or progressions

in access to information and the ability to verify it that

should have allowed some of the most literate societies

in the history of the orb to educate themselves and their

springoffs to a level of usefulness, thoughtfulness, and

resulting sensical modifications to society, industry, and the

sciences that idiocy and stupidity would be endangered

illnesses like small pox or tuberculosis.

Instead, the cultural illiteracy of many of the educators, administrators,

publishers, editors and writers has led

to a wasteland full of aimless omen-chasers who are looking

for something easy to shove in their ear while they

avoid anything that vaguely resembles true curiosity or thoguth...

um, thought.

It's like all those people who learned to type, yet can't write,

while published populayr writters are still toiling away

with a Waterman pen on a yellow legal pad!

I'll rant some more on this topic next week.

Until then, if you are reading this, I want you to do a little

research. Come back next week with a little knowledge about the

past that you don't have today.

Maybe eventually I won't have to tell you anything.

The more you listen, the less you have to hear.















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