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To: PROLIFE who wrote (545862)	1/24/2010 2:04:57 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) of 1577094

If you are speaking of Frank Rich, he is one of the greatest minds in the country. It is important to identify the great minds and then learn from them. Science has a term "knowledge directed perception". What that means is one cannot see what one does not understand. And what one cannot see, one does not even know exists. But if one keeps at it one will finally learn to see. But it takes effort. I spent years reading authors I could not understand for a long time. Most people read what reinforces their own perception of reality, or interests them (e.g. National Enquirer instead of the economist)) and end up learning nothing. Certain famous people like Rush Limbaugh are thinking at the high school level at best and know nothing to teach to anyone. So while the great minds may be harder to understand e.g. Plato and all the ancient Greeks, Tolstoy, George Bernard Shaw, or Frank Rich and Bob Herbert, one must keep at it, or end up living their lives with less understanding than they are capable of. And that is the waste of a mind.

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