Phases: Still Waxing

Not to dwell too much on the nature of knowledge, which I anyway cannot do but in a rudimentary and self-taught way, it must have been so that everyone has always attached special significance to insight gained by oneself.

I have been staring at my friend's blog for months now, where he listed all the ones he knows having a webpage, including mine, and now finally actually bothered to open some of them. And there's a young guy exclaiming: politics is fun.

Dear Jüngling, first of all - this strangely stinks of brainwashing to me, and also - it is too dangerous for us for you to be doing that.

Personally at the moment of having 33 on my back, I still consider myself to be in the learning mode - gathering experience, satisfying base needs and but shaping plans. Productive phase should probably occur sometime between 40s and 50s, and then anyone ought to just stop and maybe be respected. That is called grown-up accountability.

It is deformed centaurs that education produces. While it is obvious to anyone really thinking what power the humanities possess it should also be clear just how ineffectual the process of acquisition is. One almost longs for the age of tutors. After all the reforms, at least in my country, and numerous but individual successes, it is highly tempting to just invest in as many library cards.