Allow me to add a few more to that astute observation, Jim:

4) The Internet does offer information, the electronic gossip of the age,
whose values change in nanoseconds: consider the ever-changing numbers on
the ticker tape.  It occasionally offers “knowledge,” seldom “wisdom,”
which used to be imparted by sages, under a palm tree, without a laptop.
However, it does offer juicy gossips floating in the wind of the global
village, a morsel of entertainment whole lot better than most talk shows I
see on TV.

5) Under the pressure of publish or perish paradigm, not all books based
on research are reliable, either.  According to *The Prof. Scam,* only one
paper out of ten, presented at any conference by an expert, may add new
information to the existing body of knowledge.  The rest, warm horse
manure right out of the horse's mouth.

6) If one person clamors his authority over EVERY topic All THE TIME,
consider him a Renaissance man who belongs to that medieval era, when life
was much simpler and knowledge, myopic because in 21st century, it’s just
impossible to be an expert on everything.



(First 70's weather this fall in Shawnee, Oklahoma!)


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