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Re: What, Me Think? (was RE: clarification needed)
Subject:Re: What, Me Think? (was RE: clarification needed) From:Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 06 Dec 2000 13:00:19 -0600
The 13 stripes stand for the original 13 states.
In one of my history courses, I no longer remember which one, the professor
remarked that someone, and I can't remember who it was anymore (doncha just LOVE
all this definitive information?) was the last "universal genius," someone who
knew just about everything it was possible to know on just about every subject.
No way any one person could do that today. There is just so much knowledge out
there. Our best hope is access TO the information and the people who know (or at
least know how to find) that information. And even then, some of it is
completely beyond our comprehension. I don't claim to know a THING about nuclear
physics, for instance!
Jo Byrd
Who majored in history, among other things.....
Becca Price wrote in part:
> Well, I'm over 40, and I used to know what the 13 stripes stood for, but can't
> think of it off hand. On the other hand, I do know how to look things up, so I
> can find out, if I choose. (and probably will when I'm done with this post.)
>
> ...I read once somewhere that at the time of the American Revolution, it was
> possible for an educated
> person to know just about all there was to know (or at least to be aware of
> all the categories of information) - today I don't think that a reasonably
> educated person is even aware of all the possibilities! Consider how the
> Dewey Decimal System was once more than adequate to structure all the
> categories of knowledge, and how inadequate it is today.
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