Posted on 04/30/2020 3:06:06 PM PDT by spirited irish
In his 1930 book The Revolt of the Masses, Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset addresses what he considers to be a strange byproduct of the prevalence of specialization in everything, specifically the intellectual sphere. Previously, he writes, men could be divided simply into the learned and the ignorant, those more or less the one, and those more or less the other. Now, however, a new kind of person has emerged, an extraordinarily strange kind of man, who cannot be called learned for he is formally ignorant of all that does not enter into his specialty, yet at the same time cannot be considered ignorant because he is a scientist who knows very well his own tiny portion of the universe. Thus, Ortega y Gasset says that the only fitting name for such a person is a learned ignoramus.
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“As Robert Heinlein wrote, “Specialization Is for insects.” A human being ought to be able to do a multitude of things. At the very least, learn to use a hammer and a screwdriver. after that, add a wrench to your repertoire, then a drill. Then maybe a soldering iron. Don’t be helpless when a fuse blows, or a tire goes flat, or you need to replace a light switch.”
Personally I hate dealing with electricity so I’ll call an electrician for electrical work. But give me a minute or two to put my flame suit and other layers of nomex on and I’ll jump into a hole with blowing natural gas in a heartbeat.
Fauci lost 60,000, instead of 2.2 million, and destroyed an economy, and, we didn’t have a vote.
Finally! Someone mentioned the IYI!
The x-spurts haven't been doing so well...
Definitely.
I PRAY that Trump is on to him and is just giving him the ROPE and EXPOSURE to do himself in!
He almost single-handedly brought down America by telling Trump and Pence that 2 MILLION AMericans would DIE!!
Yeah, he’s been so far off the mark that incompetence doesn’t explain it. We are now 60% of the way to the lower end of the predicted deaths for 4/15.
A lot of the People also watch Keeping Up With The Kardashians and think the Tiger King should be released from prison. Just saying.
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