the L.E.D thing, but is there a doctor in the house?

[kevin cummiskey]

Thanks for your thoughts, Monte, (are you a movie star?), not meaning to just pick your dialogue, ahh, it seems really, nothing is unprecedent (except maybe science and it's implications) and everything is, "here we go again", especially politics or even more broadly, human relations.  And lastly, nothing at all wrong with being, too stiff,  to know or not know a blessed thing. Anything lasting longer than five hours, call your physician.

--- On Sat, 8/23/08, Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net> wrote:

From: Monte Davis <montedavis at verizon.net>
Subject: RE: That Blinking L.E.D.
To: kevincummiskey at yahoo.com, pynchon-l at waste.org
Date: Saturday, August 23, 2008, 1:46 PM



Kevin Cummiskey sez::
 
> when we're really young, we have the capacity to be very, very aware and then with 
> each passing year and the accumulation of more and more intelligence(?), we in fact, 
> become less of wisdom and more of  just accumulated ideas...
 
I don't think any but the most age-revering cultures claim that wisdom comes automatically -- it depends on what you *do* with the accumulated ideas, whether you  keep recombining and testing them rather than just repeating them in the same way in the same context.. A longer baseline is worth something in distinguishing "ZOMG, this is unprecedented!" from "OK, here we go again." 
 
Of course if you're wrong -- if this time 'round something salient *is* different but you're too stiff to know it -- you drop out of the wisdom stakes and into the category of cranky geezer. 


      
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