PenOnBeadedChain -> RE: WASHINGTON TIMES QUESTIONS WTC 7 COLLAPSE (2/27/2010 10:32:25 AM)
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ORIGINAL: AnimusRex As someone else pointed out, its amazing how suddenly insurance adjusters, office managers, mortgage brokers, and tv repairmen suddenly turn into chemists, metallugists, physicists and structural engineers, and speak confidently and with complete authority about crap that they had never even heard of until 3 days ago. That was me, on one of the global warming threads. And yes, it applies equally here as well. I think it speaks to a certain naivete about education that some people have. Armed with knowledge garnered from watching a youtube video, listening to a few agenda-soaked, half-the-truth talk radio shows and in jealous possession of a handful of bookmarks from slanted political blogs, the person in question has just duplicated years of arduous study in a sophisticated field in a shocking four days of part-time effort. They then venture forth bravely, flaunting their new self-conferred honorary doctorate in climatology (or structural dynamics) for all to marvel at (in the way that an abnormal psychologist gapes eagerly at a new case study). I'm chagrinned to say it's disproportionately a male thing. We are brought up to demonstrate our conquest of the natural and manmade world (it's one means for attracting sexual mates who will help perpetuate our genes) by spouting infinite, wide-ranging encyclopedic knowledge on topics from the trivial to the critical. It's a sign of maturity and enlightenment when we can finally surrender to reality and say with humility, "sorry, I don't know fucking squat about that subject, and it would be pointless of me to comment."
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