So it occurred to me today...
That there is far too much in the world to learn, even among what we already know as a whole.
And it is painfully obvious that the unknown, and thus, unlearnable vastly out maginitudes that which can be obtained in the brain.
Plus, it would seem that the rise in availability of such information is directly proportional to the immediacy and accessibility of distractions that so easily pull us away from significant, or meaningful learning and information. (read: YouTube)
"Oh but Nick! You can learn things on YouTube!"
No one ever got a promotion at their job because of something they saw on Oprah.
I wonder if anyone ever got fired for watching Oprah.
Here the issue is a misunderstanding of learning. Passive, sensory-feeding is not learning. Surely you don't believe in intelligence osmosis. Learning is an active, aggressive, and sometimes self-violent procedure. Humans do not learn naturally; they just flee from pain so easily.
Where were we going with this?
Oh yes, the Internet is making people dumb. Just like the have and have-not gap being (supposedly) widening in terms of wealth, the intelligence range is seeing the same effect. One man invents BitTorrent, millions become mindless stupid leechers, who think they are entitled to the latest releases free of charge.
I liked BitTorrent more when it was new. When figuring out how to torrent files was the test itself. If you had to ask how to do it, you had already failed.
In summary, you've missed an opportunity to learn something (more) important by reading this entry. There is too much to learn. I get sick just thinking about organic chemistry and Japanese at the same time. How long would it take to learn them both? And even worse, how quickly would someone else benefit from your effort? Man, it's like a perverted high-scale form of communism.
My apologies. This is what occurs when your work requires you to think (too much).
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Friday, July 13, 2007
Confusings
Well, since no one readses this, I thought I might spew from the mind here on some subjects.
Been listening to too much talk radio recently. Not that I don't find it entertaining or informative, I just find it worrying. I cannot help but wonder what people's real motives are, especially when it comes to politics. I believe it was, well, I won't day who so you, the reader won't be biased before you read it (however, there are two hidden reasons in this, 1- I already mentioned it's talk radio... so you can probably guess what bent it is towards, and 2- I don't exactly recall myself which program it was on.)
Anyway,
The point offered was that many people start out with a great motive, a good idea that makes them feel good about who they are as a person.
This points out the first big question to me... why do people need to feel good about themselves? Who are they trying to impress?
Bah, I haven't the time right now to outlet all of this. Too much unorganized thoughts creeping through my head. It would be so easy to just crawl away and ignore everyone else who is "crazy" in some manner.
Either way, back to living life like everything I've ever done and said is known by everyone everywhere.
DistorteD comes out next month. I hope I can snag it and still stay in budget.
Can't wait for GOLD either, the A/I version of CaptivAte～誓い～ is quite epic I thinks. This TAKA album is really great, but I feel as if I've played it out already.
Need to snag more of my Japanese language CDs for the car so I can escape from talk radio and everything that isn't right with the world.
The last thing I'll say is that Lieberman made some statements with Hugh Hewitt yesterday that impressed me very much.
I get to take my wife out on a date tonight, which makes all of the above quite meaningless. :-)
Been listening to too much talk radio recently. Not that I don't find it entertaining or informative, I just find it worrying. I cannot help but wonder what people's real motives are, especially when it comes to politics. I believe it was, well, I won't day who so you, the reader won't be biased before you read it (however, there are two hidden reasons in this, 1- I already mentioned it's talk radio... so you can probably guess what bent it is towards, and 2- I don't exactly recall myself which program it was on.)
Anyway,
The point offered was that many people start out with a great motive, a good idea that makes them feel good about who they are as a person.
This points out the first big question to me... why do people need to feel good about themselves? Who are they trying to impress?
Bah, I haven't the time right now to outlet all of this. Too much unorganized thoughts creeping through my head. It would be so easy to just crawl away and ignore everyone else who is "crazy" in some manner.
Either way, back to living life like everything I've ever done and said is known by everyone everywhere.
DistorteD comes out next month. I hope I can snag it and still stay in budget.
Can't wait for GOLD either, the A/I version of CaptivAte～誓い～ is quite epic I thinks. This TAKA album is really great, but I feel as if I've played it out already.
Need to snag more of my Japanese language CDs for the car so I can escape from talk radio and everything that isn't right with the world.
The last thing I'll say is that Lieberman made some statements with Hugh Hewitt yesterday that impressed me very much.
I get to take my wife out on a date tonight, which makes all of the above quite meaningless. :-)
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
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HI.
This is all for now.
Later then.
-NCS
This is all for now.
Later then.
-NCS
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