I am an idiot

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1. It won’t. We’re now in the degenerative phase of our life cycle.

   1. Bugger. I had hoped that I would spin a cocoon and come out a beautiful butterfly.

      1. Gorillas are much more beautiful than butterflies.

2. A better title would have been, ‘I am and idiot’.

   1. That would make me a looser.

3. That seems a really weird reason to resign.

   When your minions/underlings know more than you is when managing people becomes interesting 🙂

   1. Oh, I didn’t resign, but it meant I was looking for a new career. Then along came this philosophy postdoc…

      1. I just realised. This means I became a philosopher when my mind began to go… I wonder what that means?

      2. Indeed, a group of qualified philosophers should investigate the meaning of that.

      3. This explains why it is so hard to organise philosophers. They are all losing their minds…

      4. … and their cats.

         1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7yqlTMvp8

4. It’s called being human.

   And it’s not that the minions are smarter, it’s the realization that the younger generation now look on you as the same doddering old fart as you looked on the older generation as when you were their age.

   What’s really; deflating, though, is meeting kids for whom Star Trek: The Next Generation is some sort of quaint fossil from the early years of TV SF and who have never even heard of the original series.

   Still, just remember, even at your dumbest you’re still smarter than a fifth-grader who is a hundred times smarter than a cdesign proponentsist.

   And at least twice as smart as a New Atheist.

   1. *sigh* and I can’t even sub-edit HTML tags now.

      1. Well I can still do that, at least… fixed

      2. Ta muchly! I knew you still had it in you.

5. I wouldn’t be too down on idiocy. It’s been a time-honored profession ever since we began falling off walls. And these days, a truly blithering idiot can have almost unlimited earning potential (case in point: glenn beck).

   1. You know who else was an idiot? Hitler!

6. What’s really; deflating, though, is meeting kids for whom Star Trek: The Next Generation is some sort of quaint fossil from the early years of TV SF and who have never even heard of the original series.

   I already went through this more than thirty years ago in a record shop. (note: records existed before those antique CDs). Two young teenage girls were looking at a Beatles albums and one explained to the other that’s a group Paul McCartney used to be in.

   Around the same time my flat mate was watching a rerun of Woodstock (the film that is) in our local fleapit. During the final sequence the teenage girl sitting in front of him turned to her boyfriend and asked; “who’s the nigger playing his guitar the wrong way round?” I think ‘feeling old’ starts around ones twentieth birthday!

7. Feeling better after a good night’s sleep? Whenever I feel like that (which, now in my mid forties, is more often than I would like it to be), I sleep.

   I kind of remember (See?!) seeing something about the filming of that commercial in Animal Planet (or at least I think it was…) and how they used specially trained cats and digital effects.

   Your talk about building a cocoon and coming out as a butterfly made me think about a comics series of the 70s, “Kamandi: the Last Boy on Earth”, and a character that does exactly that (starting as some sort of energy monster and coming out as a beautiful red woman). None of my students would know what I was talking about if I told them about it and, in fact, they don’t even know about “Editorial Novaro”, a Mexican publishing house that translated American comics to Spanish and sold them all over Latin America since the late 50s. It went bankrupt in the 80s. For me and most Mexicans my age it was an intrinsic part of growing up.

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