Tuesday, April 04, 2006

They changed the questions

With knowledge comes the inexorable sensation of falling behind. You can learn a lot but the first thing you learn is how much more there is to know, and how much more than that that is as yet unknown and so potentially unknowable. Learn about sleep and you learn that your whole life you've been falling behind, building a debt that in the end can only be cancelled by the big sleep. Learn about Motzart and find out how far behind your genius is already.

And so it goes. Learning is a fool's game. Lucky are the masses toiling fruitlessly in the happy fields of their ignorance.

klik if you demand tedious explanations of every little thing.

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