In order to arrive at what you do not know
You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance
from East Coker (The Four Quartets) Thomas Stearns Eliot
George McConnell
Still Hungry!!
The title of this blog “Feeding My Ignorance” is derived from the Terry Pratchett quote that appears at the top of the Wiki page. This allied to the Einstein quote on the this page illustrates that my take on ignorance is not a negative one – and that the fact that my ‘perceived’ ignorance is increasing is actually a very positive (if paradoxical) sign of increased knowledge.
Is There Such A Thing As Friendly Manipulation?
It is no real surprise that when blogging on a reasonably regular basis there is a tendency for similar themes to recur. Anyone who has read through some of my posts will have seen some of these repetitive refrains and this post is yet another angle on the recurrent theme of “there is a lot of grey between black and white”!
Summer Of ’71
This morning I got into the car and was immediately transported back in time to Castle Toward – July 1971 – Rimsky Korsakov’s Scheherazade – a little treasure chest full of memories of a dozen days spent in intensive learning of a couple of orchestral works chosen to expand our musical horizons and to provide an exciting and entertaining concert for all those family members and friends who turned up in Dunoon.
More On Changing What Is Acceptable
The previous post on acceptability talked about some reasons why things become unacceptable over time and raised a point regarding the width of the “boundary of acceptability”. In this follow up I want to discuss a bit more the grey areas surrounding acceptability – from a number of viewpoints including cultural and personal.
Dead Souls
I’m back into the “Inspector Rebus” series. The first nine books in the series were covered in an earlier post.
This post covers the next five books I have in the series
Selective Memory?
In History Is What We Make It I wrote about the vagaries of our memories – how we remember some things, forget others and make up yet more!! Yesterday I was given a rather clear example of just how ‘strange’ our memory can be when it comes to selecting a particular event to forget!!
The Tingle Factor Redux
Radio 3 is – on its breakfast show – focusing on building a playlist based on the theme “the Tingle Factor”. Some time ago I wrote a post on that subject and it was always likely that I would return to it. Sitting here listening to the opening of Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony was all I needed to trigger that return!
On Changing What Is Considered Acceptable
It is interesting to see how our understanding of what is “acceptable” changes through time. Things change in both directions – some things that are “acceptable” become “unacceptable” whilst other things go from “unacceptable” to “acceptable”.
A Paradox of Ignorance
We all – inevitably – view the world through a series of prejudices and biases. This is not a criticism, merely a fact. Just yesterday I clipped an article to OneNote which listed “58 Cognitive Biases That Screw Up Everything We Do“!! In addition to these inbuilt mistake inducing biases we also have our own personal list of “things we know” that colour every move we make.