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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (69022)	4/29/2018 11:49:07 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 357168

Seems some ppl usually offended at lies & attacks on the media by Trump WH, today are offended a comedienne publicly calling out Trump WH on their lies & attacks on the media. But hey, fortunately in the Trump era, only politically-correct “snowflakes” should care about feelings. pic.twitter.com/r9FtRZaAhm — Ana Navarro (@ananavarro) April 29, 2018

To: i-node who wrote (69022)

4/30/2018 12:01:33 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 357168

I learned when young to learn from the best and brightest. Only a right winger would see education by the world's greatest teachers as hero worship. And I read people from all ages, but knowing our history, what lead to what, provides context that makes sense out of the world.

Something you never learned to do-lol.

I also learned when young we do not deduce shit, we learn. That is why a president who does not read good books is a dumbo and threat to the nation. Like Trump and Bush and look what they did!!

And the human species has produced tens of thousands of great teachers. If I started naming all the ones I learned from, then you would accuse me of being an elitist.

I can't with with you-lol!

And I have read the double helix about Watson and Crick and books by Fenyman, but you left out Maxwell who was as great as Einstein.

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Sometimes you sound like a right winger with your causal dismissal of things like the wisdom of the Great thinkers like Bertrand Russel, or the science of society and politics.

You seem to me to be enamored with the intellectuals of the past. But I never hear you discuss Don Knuth or Djikstra. I never seen any mention of the greats like Feynman, Dyson, or John von Neumann for Christ's sake. Watson & Crick, nothing?

Fermi, Hans Bethe, Maxwell, and of course Einstein.

Do you ever feel like your hero worship is a little misdirected?