Blowing your nose into your fingers, marrying more then one person, stretching your ear lobes to shoulder length.
Seeking to find someone "intelligent" we look for features that are common to everyone "intelligent."
If we had met a person who was "intelligent" and looked like number 1, another who looked like number 2, and a third who looked like number 3. We would have associated a particular look of what we considered an "intelligent person to be. The danger when we come upon number 4 is we may dismiss as stupid, or even worse.
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Familiarity and nationality= good?
Unfamiliar=inadequate?
"The wisest man that ever was, when asked what he knew, replied that the one thing he did know was that he knew nothing."
-Montaigne (quoting anonymous)
Glad to see the blog back up. But you need to talk to your mother. She misses you and would like to have the connection you use to have.
ReplyDeleteJust an intellect thought from a nonintellectual person.