Thursday, May 04, 2006

Everything important has already been said

We always think, as a new generation, that we invented something new... But when you think about it, we really didn't.
Take Remixes for example: Young ones think they are seeing or hearing something new, when actually, they are simply served an old lukewarm song.

it's not always a bad thing: it gives old ideas new life. Look at the idea behind The Matrix: It's basically Descartes' writings adapted to appeal to the masses... But, while the movie doesn't make that claim, it still gives the illusion of a new idea or a new concept for the uninitiated.

Knowledge is power, and history is full of knowledge. What we learn in school is built upon generations. It's information distilled from sources around the world, from millions of people working on problems, from the works of greater men that have spent their entire lives on a single subject.

For this very reason, I do not pretend to know the absolute truth or have the solution. The biggest repository of human knowledge (The Library of Congress), something around 17 to 20TB of text. I do not know that much, and I don't think nobody will... This blog simply represent my thoughts at the time. But if I can be the eye opener for the uninitiated, the post will have serve its purpose...

That and tell my friends what are my thoughts for the day.

I will end this post with a juicy quote:

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato, according to William L.
Patty and Louise S. Johnson, Personality and Adjustment, p. 277
(1953)."

Or this one:

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
-- George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905



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