Hi RATs!

I think, therefore, I error. Humans learn whatever they can to allow
themselves to eat and sleep and smile and such.

Music (recordings, from my hot rodded noise toys) eases the pain, and,
suppresses my broken brain ... even better

Those of us with adequate meds and no remaining ability to fight the
"Glorious and Grande Battles for Income" are allowed to just putter
and listen. I did more puttering, in better days

Education is a fine pose by fine posers in institutions of learning.

Unschooled children, dull and clever, the world over, learn as much,
or more, every day, than our silly institutions teach those, dull and
clever, cursed by birth to attend to some fuddy duddy mouthing
memorized banalities about organized and catalogued nonsense. If any
of you ear heads have never seen "Auntie Mame", the Rosalind Russel
version, it is a wonderful sendup of Big Buck Education in Gotham.

I have been graced by some fine teachers. But those few brave souls
can not carry the burden of all the dead meat stumbling around the
world campuses. Many attend, but few get excited enough to go after
more than a piece of parchment. None become immortal or really
educated, but, some have more fun than others.

An education is learning to find answers and figure out new questions.
Some get it, some can't. All try their best, except the morbidly silly
who think America's "No Child Left Behind" is anything more than
holding the clever back to make the dull 'feel' normal. Those kind of
manufactured emotions do no one any favors. No matter how well the
folly is documented. Nor how often

All of us seek to understand things, in any manner which gives us a
sense of understanding. We may be called polymaths, or idiots, but,
those who try to memorize the answers are better at name calling than
anything useful to their brethren.

None are "poorly educated", we are all incredibly well educated, given
the breadth of the Universe and the insanity of our fellows. No human
speaks a language completely shared with any other, ever. Some may
share more, or less, but that is just empty statistics.

I look for answers where I find puzzles. Some are not thusly
motivated. They look to preach their answers where no one sees any
puzzle. Both have friends and enemies, whatever that may mean

It is hopeless. But, passes the time.

Tubes are not the answer, they are just another way to find some joy
in this war zone ... combat is popular, but, optional. Death be not
proud, nor killing fair, but, we all will die ... Just, after this
tune, OK?

Happy Ears!
Al