Posted by Atticus on August 25, 2004, at 8:40:40
In reply to Re: poem...Stupidity Without Fail » Atticus, posted by malthus on August 24, 2004, at 19:43:12
Well, by putting quote marks around the word "stupid," I meant to imply that I was using the word figuratively rather than literally to describe feats that others thought it was foolish to even attempt because they seemed so impossible, so absurdly over-ambitious. Such feats could conceivably cover a lot of territory, ranging from the scientific (flight with a heavier-than-air machine, the Wright brothers) to the social (using non-violent resistance to take on heavily armed regimes, Ghandi). I guess what I was trying to say is that notions that seem "stupid" to a lot of people in the end sometimes turn out to be brilliant. And, unfortunately, of course, vice versa. Atticus
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