For the first time in the history of our poor damned species...
One can question the value of "AUTHORITY" as has been the effort of "telerion" in the last few minutes here on RHP.
What makes "telerion" insipid?
First look up the word and then respond.
He/it claims that I am irrellavent because I have admitted (ney boasted) that I have educated myself and not relied on purchasing knowledge.
Can one purchase knowlege? More importantly... can one purchase wisdom and truth?
Is this a staggerin' thought or what? What say you?
Can one purchase wisdom and the ability to think into the future?
Or is what one buys a commodity to be hoarded as "truth"?
<edit> I forgot to mention the source of my bold assertion. The reason we are for the first time able to ignore ignorance is "the internet".
Sorry about that. But we now have... for the first time the ability to educate ourselves "on the spot.". If we dare. I won't hold my breath for the next year. The idea has not been posed. So It will take a year to filter down.
How does it feel to be on the frontier?
Originally posted by StarValleyWyThere were such primitive things as books before the Internet. Public libraries as well - you could learn in the Reading Room of the British Museum for example.
For the first time in the history of our poor damned species...
One can question the value of "AUTHORITY" as has been the effort of "telerion" in the last few minutes here on RHP.
What makes "telerion" insipid?
First loo ...[text shortened]... a year to filter down.
How does it feel to be on the frontier?
After all, Karl Marx spent years there reading economics and writing Das Kapital.
So nothing new under the sun. Although in 1867. it would have taken months rather than seconds for us to write insults to each other so we do have some progress.
Originally posted by steerpikeTrue..
There were such primitive things as books before the Internet. Public libraries as well - you could learn in the Reading Room of the British Museum for example.
After all, Karl Marx spent years there reading economics and writing Das Kapital.
So nothing new under the sun. Although in 1867. it would have taken months rather than seconds for us to write insults to each other so we do have some progress.
The internet is a great source of information but a lot of the time its extremly hard to verify the facts that you read and/or find a very good information source.
I know myself i would generally only have 5-6 sites that i go to everyday for news and information. Wikipedia being one excellent source.
To actually try to "educate" yourself using solely the internet i think would be a lot harder task. I think its a great medium for improving on a topic you already know something about, that way you can bypass the sites that you think are bias/just plain wrong and concentrate on more quality sites.
It would probably be a lot easier to just go down to your local library imho, at least there theres a certain standard to all information present.