As I stated earlier,
Created | Updated Mar 20, 2005
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.