The More One Knows…
About this I have been thinking lately: we are not human RSS readers. It is true that it’s hard to write and talk about anything these days. Anything would require at least some googling (and that does not even constitute a bit of research), and to hold an opinion risks being ignorant, because there’s always some newer, better development that one simply can’t grasp. We have this much horizon and this much capacity of digesting inflows.
My observation is that some people turn into another extreme, feeding themselves on endless feeds and latest gimmicks or technologies, or anything. In front of them it’s hard to hold an opinion, because there’s always another side that they know while you, without that much digestion, don’t. Well it might not be a bad thing though, as they’ll always remind you how ignorant you are. Your opinions and ideas will run thru their most stringent scrutiny, and then be treated as yet another piece of work in the flow.
On the other hand, that scrutiny might stifle even the least silly effort to make a noise. And one might feel that to beat them (or to join them) one also has to turn himself or herself into one that digests.
Well, I have always been the silly that makes noise that might have been heard and said and spoken over and over. Reinventing the wheel while I could join the system and leverage and leapfrog. But if I make a noise because that’s what I feel like to and feel natural to, I guess I won’t give it up to the endless human RSS feeds.
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‘Education can help us only if it produces “whole men”. The truly educated man is not a man who knows a bit of everything, not even the man who knows all the details of all subjects (if such a thing were possible): the “whole man” in fact, may have little detailed knowledge of facts and theories, he may treasure the Encyclopædia Britannica because “she knows and he needn’t”, but he will be truly in touch with the centre. He will not be in doubt about his basic convictions, about his view on the meaning and purpose of his life. He may not be able to explain these matters in words, but the conduct of his life will show a certain sureness of touch which stems from this inner clarity.’ – St Fritz, Small Is Beautiful