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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (1510553)	1/3/2025 2:46:17 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574848

I spent my life as a big reader searching the world for the best and brightest to teach me. I figured out how ignorant I was in my early 20's, and did not want to live my life that way. I knew there were big ideas I didn't understand and wanted to know what they were. It was an epiphany and that started my long journey for understanding, In my early 20's at the end of college, I made my living substitute teaching and playing poker, so had lots of time. Every afternoon in San Jose I laid on my big white couch with the door open and read for 4 or 5 hours for a couple of years. Most of the time I had no idea what they were talking about, but I persevered. The final result was my embracing existentialism. I could not find a single person after the fall of Greece, for a 1,000 years that wrote with the sophistication of any number of ancient Greeks like Plato. Not one. When I was in college I took a course on the ancient Greeks from a really good philosophy professor. Yes, Rome burned down all the libraries and burned the books. Only about 1% of the knowledge remained. The ancient Greeks were mainly deductive thinkers, but on the verge of discovering inductive science and at that point it would have brought them to this point of civilization quickly. They already had a good written language, and the seeds of democracy, ethics, and basic math, and science. They knew the earth was round and the circumference within 25 miles! And they had figured out some logic that was not rediscovered until recently. I am so glad I took the path I did, and a lot of it was luck e.g. my childhood mentor Bobby Herr.