Re: IPK Q&A on Phlop's blog

BadgerBC wrote:
On Feb 15, 6:31 pm, "Erasmus Brown" <ebr...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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IPK's favorite movie is "Dumb and Dumber"?!?


Oh my goodness


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/books/14dumb.html?em&ex=1203397200&en=38525b1af4915364&ei=5087%0A


But now, Ms. Jacoby said, something different is happening: anti-
intellectualism (the attitude that "too much learning can be a
dangerous thing") and anti-rationalism ("the idea that there is no
such things as evidence or fact, just opinion") have fused in a
particularly insidious way.

Not only are citizens ignorant about essential scientific, civic and
cultural knowledge, she said, but they also don't think it matters.

She pointed to a 2006 National Geographic poll that found nearly half
of 18- to 24-year-olds don't think it is necessary or important to
know where countries in the news are located. So more than three years
into the Iraq war, only 23 percent of those with some college could
locate Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel on a map.

Ms. Jacoby, dressed in a bright red turtleneck with lipstick to match,
was sitting, appropriately, in that temple of knowledge, the New York
Public Library's majestic Beaux Arts building on Fifth Avenue. The
author of seven other books, she was a fellow at the library when she
first got the idea for this book back in 2001, on 9/11.

Walking home to her Upper East Side apartment, she said, overwhelmed
and confused, she stopped at a bar. As she sipped her bloody mary, she
quietly listened to two men, neatly dressed in suits. For a second she
thought they were going to compare that day's horrifying attack to the
Japanese bombing in 1941 that blew America into World War II:

"This is just like Pearl Harbor," one of the men said.

The other asked, "What is Pearl Harbor?"

"That was when the Vietnamese dropped bombs in a harbor, and it
started the Vietnam War," the first man replied.

At that moment, Ms. Jacoby said, "I decided to write this book."


This is not news, unfortunately. It is the undercurrent behind a good amount of the venom we have seen here for years directed at anyone who dares actually analyze baseball with the intent to actually understand what is happening in the sport.
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