That Blinking L.E.D.

[Monte Davis]

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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