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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jttmab who wrote (14760)	9/22/2002 10:39:03 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Your had me thinking about memory again. The guiding maxim to a good memory is encapsulated in the saying "Better to keep quiet and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt". In other words restrict comments when you are not sure of the facts. It may not help your memory,but it sure helps the perception of it in others. I have virtually no memory for sports statistics. This drives some of my friends crazy when I can't remember the score of a game we saw together or who won the sweet 16 rankings. I enjoy the game and the spectacle of the occasion, but I don't make any effort to recall the details. I speculate that leaving that large category blank in my mind leaves room for associations of different factoids. Gestalt,(I suspect you know) is a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts . The key to rememberance, signifigance, and understanding is knowing the relationship of a factoid to the gestalt of the problem set. I think the biggest hinderence to memory and understanding is having a rigid, unchanging yardstick with which to catagorize the things they learn. This is why someone like Bill Bennet can be very smart and yet wind up convinced of bone-head proposals. President Junior seems to be so caught up on the mechanics of memorizing names and nicnames and such that he can compare new input to only the simplest of yardsticks. Enron must be devastating for him if he has to change the perception of some people, like Kenney-boy, from the good side of the yardstick to the bad. I suspect he has given him a new nickname to aid in the process. I speculate that many Americans would rather have a leader who is simple even if wrong because it makes it easier for them. Unfortunately they remember only the phrases and slogans and not the details (just like me at a basketball game). TP