I really don't like being constantly amazed that people I went to school with seem to demonstrate the most appalling lack of education. They went to the same schools as I did, dammit - how do they have no recollection of (today's example) "the symbol is not the thing" that we heard over and over again in the Semantics Unit in Language Arts our sophomore year?
Yeah, OK, high school's getting to be a very long time ago, but how do you not know that one? The average partly-trained orangutan knows that one. At the very bottom of your mid-brain, there's a solid understanding of the concept. And when it's triggered, it should pop right up to the surface.
The anti-intellectual conditioning - the dimming of America - has been pretty effective.
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