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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (34875)	5/18/2008 1:27:43 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217740

So you read encyclopedias as a child as well. I thought that was my peculiar habit alone. I used to do something like that to think when I was at Chevron. After days of reading material on a project I'd go across the street and borrow a book by Pliny or Marcus Aurelius. By the time I'd finished a coffee and macaroni & cheese and a few chapters I had a new insight on the project I was working on. I also kept a portable TI computer terminal at home, one where you plugged the phone handle into suction cups and it printed on thermal paper. For that sudden clarity that can happen after you come home from dinner or are getting into bed. Now we have Medline and business news all on-line. Quite amazing. It reminds me that PBS interviewed Warren Buffet's younger son a few weeks ago. He said he had no idea what his Dad did or that he was famous when he was growing up. He said, "I just knew my Dad read all the time and I couldn't figure out how someone could earn a living doing that." .

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (34875)	5/18/2008 10:52:16 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217740

Electronic means vs Musty dusty books. Start with Television. TV doesn't educate people. It entertains people. What passes as information on TV is desguised marketing. Poeple with an interest buy air time to position their products. Which can be people (a candidate), new film, or counter-propaganda. You know it. The Internet is exactly the same as TV as concept is concerned. Propaganda and counter-propaganda. 90% of t Internet is crap. But again 90% of everything is crap. What is the 10%? Well, one need to know the paths that lead to those 10%, for those 10% is buried in the deep. Know the path that leads to the depth and you reach those 10%. My wife just published a book. I have read part of it. She told me about the epxeriecne of writing it. Said that she is now another person after wroting the book. Because she was forced to think harder and look to everything really hard to get everything straight. I told her when I wrote my book -which I, regretably, didn;t published- I became another person too. because I need to correlate facts and thoughts across the whole book. Once it is printed, it gathers dust and must and is transformed in dusty musty material. Therein lies the struggle someone once had to get everything strightened up since is going to be scrutinized by the reader and you can come back to it any time. So your words can come back biting at you, the writer. Therefore, the dusty musty material is where the education lies. here you have to come back every month to tell the people obvious stuff you researched and posted. This electronic format here where we write can never replace the books. It could if most of what is wrotten here was 10% stuff. But while I try to get the 10% here, there are many producing the 90% of crap. That's why MQ is not here now. because he thinks that this is a vehicle for his humoiur of dubious quality. I go farther now: Bush talks using the technique of Jay Leno. I was appalled! You should not use that technique as public figure. But he knows his constutuency. That type of humour is clever. has a 'bite' into it. If one can do that -I mean the guys who write not Jay leno who only knows how to communicate what is written by the team that wirte the elements- he must be a very clever person. Bush using that techinque may even pass as smart. But we know that he is talking to people whose sole education was the electronic medium. The conclusion is: People can give the impression they have gone through the musty dusty books but - same as Bush- we know that they have not gone to the depths...