Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:39:04 -0400, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: > > I believe we are - dumber - if you're referring to basic knowledge. ... Anecdotal evidence is generally not worth much (based on anecdotal evidence). However, I was asked by an apparently educated acquaintance of my own generation (aka pre-boomer) with a post-graduate degree: "Is Australia in the southern hemisphere?" It is not clear to me that the lack of basic knowledge is more prevalent now than it was a century ago. Maybe "people" were just as ignorant then, and we think that they were not simply because only the words of the wise have survived? -- Clive http://clive.moss.net