Word!
This might become an ongoing post topic, because I find it fun and enlightening to re-interpret some one’s words, and have comment participation with readers.
Although, history shows us how dangerous interpretations can be… =)
I will be listing 3 quotes by well-known and even unknown authors, public figures, and artists.
Then I will give my own Halfass interpretation of each quote.
I encourage all who read this post to pick one or all of the quotes and then give their own interpretation.
Have fun!
Here goes…
- “Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.” -Robert Anton Wilson
- I believe R.A.W. hit the nail on the head with this quote.
For me I see it as his way of showing/explaining how/why many people in this world are blindly following faiths and ideologies. He was big on getting people to wake up and think for themselves.
To understand this quote you need to cast aside everything you’ve ever learned and then ask and apply this question to everything about yourself, “Why did I learn that? or How did I come about believing this?” Once you do this you can start to see that you’re view points are not always entirely yours. - For example, when you’re born you are completely faithless(neutral), your parents will eventually pass on to you their faith/values/morals and knowledge.
More often then not this happens when your curious little brain begin to question things in life. You might ask your parents a simple question such as, “Why is the sky blue?” Perhaps then your parents would answer “Because God made it that way.” or maybe you’ll get a more honest answer such as “I don’t know.” And BINGO! Instant faith…
- Anyways my point is that you are not brought into this world believing in anything.
Once you start to age your brain begins storing information and learning begins. - A RECAP(in my words): Once an individual places faith on any one subject or thing, intelligence ceases to exist in that area, unless of course that individual begins to question his/her own faith in that area, then and only then does intelligence persist. Uncertainty is bliss!
- I believe R.A.W. hit the nail on the head with this quote.
- “The first problem for all of us, men, and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” -Gloria Steinem
- We focus so much on learning and education in a literal sense, yet ‘we’ pay very little attention to the unconscious learning and/or social conditioning/programming brought about from our environment, parents, public/private schooling, and basic day-to-day interaction with one another. Understanding oneself is the key to positive interaction with the universe as a whole.
- We focus so much on learning and education in a literal sense, yet ‘we’ pay very little attention to the unconscious learning and/or social conditioning/programming brought about from our environment, parents, public/private schooling, and basic day-to-day interaction with one another. Understanding oneself is the key to positive interaction with the universe as a whole.
- “Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.” – George Washington
- Every man is fallible in the face of greed! (In my opinion, don’t trust anyone wearing a suit!)
When lots of green paper with dead presidents on them are involved, the honest intention, whether it was there to begin with, is cast aside. - Anyone remember Gov. Rod Blagojevich and that famous Senate seat?
- Every man is fallible in the face of greed! (In my opinion, don’t trust anyone wearing a suit!)
What say you?
-Ego
The problem with R.A.W.’s comment is that it’s a paradox. Intelligence is not simply based on retransmission of something, and maybe throwing in some new ideas. That completely side-steps the human condition: To have an opinion, and/or emotional response to an idea. Without that response, innovation is slow. The addition of emotion introduces that which causes, in his definition, “stupidity”. Ideas and completely new ways of thinking are what have allowed us stupid humans to excel in our collective knowledge and intelligence more in the past 50 years than in our race’s entire existence.
That’s my new signal to the stream, or a bit of stupidity.
Thank you for commenting and bringing a different perspective to me =)
-Ego