From: Alex Ramonsky (alex@ramonsky.com)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 02:07:35 MDT
Vanessa Novaeris wrote:
[snip]
>since I started reading & especially since I
>joined this list, I can confidently say that I have become a self-professed
>science groupie (even though I feel dumb & don’t know very much yet, but I
>guess that’s all part of it ;) )
>
Yeh, it gets worse! The more you learn, the more you find you don't know
and then you want to know. This is great only if you're gonna live long
enough to learn everything you want to know...which is why I'm into all
this, I suppose. Maybe extropians are just the nosiest people in the
universe? ... But it does mean that if you do live a very long time,
you're not going to get bored! : )
[snip]
> Honestly though, it literally took total
>isolation from the outside world for me to discover this, so I don’t know
>what, if anything, that implies about the general public.
>
...Is this that 'dark night of the soul' thing people go on about, I
wonder? It's interesting how many of us have done the 'isolation'
thing, and then turned back to reassess human contacts. Maybe it's
necessary to get a perspective, like when you stand outside a problem
and look at it afresh? The 'general public' doesn't seem to use this
'overview' mode very often; perhaps they do in retrospect (about failed
love affairs, arguments, etc) but people on the whole seem to be more
caught up in worrying and / or feeling guilty than trying to think. If
folks are happy with that I think it's fine, but the trouble is, most
folks don't seem to find much joy in it.
(On the other hand, of course, perhaps I'm just too dumb to notice all
these things I should be worrying about ?) : )
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