tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post8696546564937409320..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Comic Book GuysBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-43959978567077691592008-12-08T10:23:00.000+00:002008-12-08T10:23:00.000+00:00Clever people gave us esperanto, Marxism, concrete...Clever people gave us esperanto, Marxism, concrete tower blocks, the atom bomb, the terrible causes of global warming, the terrible solutions to global warming and The Future. <BR/><BR/>And they have better sperm. <BR/><BR/>I vote stupid.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-19155883100617148992008-12-08T10:03:00.000+00:002008-12-08T10:03:00.000+00:00A former colleague of mine once told me that Bell ...A former colleague of mine once told me that Bell Labs used to recruit the very cleverest graduates from the great technical schools in the US. They were so clever that they couldn't actually do things that normal people do, like get dressed or remember to eat. While their huge brains pulsed with the sort of cleverness that brought us laser technology, other less clever but infinitely more Sophie Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05212037697701712380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-14308442186134290072008-12-07T12:20:00.000+00:002008-12-07T12:20:00.000+00:00"The real world". Dread phrase! Unless you're schi..."The real world". Dread phrase! Unless you're schizo, there is only one. Frank Rich's best point is that someone who's been through the fire understands the world better than someone who hasn't. So the key qualification is wisdom rather than cleverness, "the product of hard-won, often bitter experience", not letters after your name or pots of money.<BR/><BR/>I guess the worry is that Obama may beMarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-91981427292033237872008-12-07T11:22:00.000+00:002008-12-07T11:22:00.000+00:00However clever or not Team Bam is, the trappings o...However clever or not Team Bam is, the trappings of power will morph them all into the philosopher kings that will fail us all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-43362491321283064512008-12-07T07:22:00.000+00:002008-12-07T07:22:00.000+00:00First off, I'm glad I was incorrect on the predict...First off, I'm glad I was incorrect on the prediction of the election. You nailed it.<BR/>Nevertheless, I still maintain that it was stupid to put the result at risk for narrow agenda, but hayho.<BR/>Now to the post. Clever people, I'm never really certain what this means. But if one can hold any definition on the term it is surely better than the other side of the coin. While, as to Kennedy, he Vincehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09442327549417743472noreply@blogger.com