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From: greg@mind.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: the trouble with modern man
Message-ID: <629@mind.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 14:40:48 EST
Article-I.D.: mind.629
Posted: Wed Mar 25 14:40:48 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Mar-87 05:45:15 EST
References: <495@mipos3.UUCP <1065@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University
Lines: 22
Summary: Yeah!

In article <1065@cartan.Berkeley.EDU<>, obnoxio@brahms (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:
<> I read the above and want to throw up.  Ignorance is one thing, but
<> pride in it?  And then pseudo-logical reasonings to justify ignorance?
<> 
<> Quite frankly, I find much of Plato, Homer, etc quite relevant to the
<> world around me.  It's because "modern men" don't get educated beyond
<> their petty how-to-make-a-fortune-and-retire-easy desires that so much
<> is wrong with the world today.  Instead of ever learning how to think
<> for themselves, which is what a classical education was supposed to make
<> possible, we get endless gibbering morons who can't make two sentences
<> cohere logically, although they know how to program in C, and that suf-
<> fices for them to make themselves out to be experts on rational analy-
<> sis.  And these are the people who turn into rabid Randroids or funda-
<> mentalists or the like--intellects that can be blown over with a feather,
<> yet who through their stubborn stupidity are reshaping the world around
<> us with their stinking effluvia into their own pointless prefab image.
<> ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720


YEAH!!  Kick pedagogical BUTT, Matthew! You tell `em!

Greg@Princeton