http://www.bradezone.com/2006/07/06/how-flimsy-the-foundation-of-self-opinion/ Reception. Observation. Perception. Emotion. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:12:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.bradezone.com/2006/07/06/how-flimsy-the-foundation-of-self-opinion/#comment-34 Katherine Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:28:19 +0000 http://bradezone.bigbluehat.com/blog/?p=20#comment-34 ouch! But thanks for this thoughtful and well-written post! ouch! But thanks for this thoughtful and well-written post!

]]> http://www.bradezone.com/2006/07/06/how-flimsy-the-foundation-of-self-opinion/#comment-33 Brade Thu, 27 Jul 2006 17:13:47 +0000 http://bradezone.bigbluehat.com/blog/?p=20#comment-33 Ed, as long as I get to play random jazz flute solos. Ed, as long as I get to play random jazz flute solos.

]]> http://www.bradezone.com/2006/07/06/how-flimsy-the-foundation-of-self-opinion/#comment-32 sligh Wed, 26 Jul 2006 08:25:36 +0000 http://bradezone.bigbluehat.com/blog/?p=20#comment-32 Quite funny, my friend. An acerbic wit calling for the oh-so-necessary reality check. Quite funny, my friend. An acerbic wit calling for the oh-so-necessary reality check.

]]> http://www.bradezone.com/2006/07/06/how-flimsy-the-foundation-of-self-opinion/#comment-31 Ed Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:20:56 +0000 http://bradezone.bigbluehat.com/blog/?p=20#comment-31 Too true. I personally like the "paintball tactics analogy." Too funny. Can we start a band called "Street Cred." That would be awesome. "We are Awesome." Too true. I personally like the “paintball tactics analogy.” Too funny.
Can we start a band called “Street Cred.” That would be awesome.
“We are Awesome.”

]]> http://www.bradezone.com/2006/07/06/how-flimsy-the-foundation-of-self-opinion/#comment-30 Jordan Sun, 09 Jul 2006 02:25:53 +0000 http://bradezone.bigbluehat.com/blog/?p=20#comment-30 Wow--you've just said a lot of what I've been thinking the last few years. It is enormously bothersome to deal with people who can communicate in a broad range of subjects, but only only a superficial level. Even more frustrating are the people who try to come across as expert at everything. I like Socrates's idea; to paraphrase: "A fool is a man who thinks he knows what he does not; a wise man is one who knows that he does not know." I think this generation's theme song--even beyond the boundaries of our mutual institution of learning--is "The Great Pretender." Wow–you’ve just said a lot of what I’ve been thinking the last few years. It is enormously bothersome to deal with people who can communicate in a broad range of subjects, but only only a superficial level. Even more frustrating are the people who try to come across as expert at everything. I like Socrates’s idea; to paraphrase: “A fool is a man who thinks he knows what he does not; a wise man is one who knows that he does not know.” I think this generation’s theme song–even beyond the boundaries of our mutual institution of learning–is “The Great Pretender.”

]]> http://www.bradezone.com/2006/07/06/how-flimsy-the-foundation-of-self-opinion/#comment-29 Phred Q. Mathers Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:28:51 +0000 http://bradezone.bigbluehat.com/blog/?p=20#comment-29 That does seem like a common thread in society these days: rampant pretention. Examples include airbrushed magazine covers and the whole myspace "I can make myself seem like a cool emo kid and then send messages to all the people that I never could talk to in high school" craze. It's also of note that we live in a country that thinks Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bono and (help us all) Alec Baldwin are great political voices. Something ain't right. That does seem like a common thread in society these days: rampant pretention. Examples include airbrushed magazine covers and the whole myspace “I can make myself seem like a cool emo kid and then send messages to all the people that I never could talk to in high school” craze. It’s also of note that we live in a country that thinks Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bono and (help us all) Alec Baldwin are great political voices. Something ain’t right.

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