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[volterator]

Well, this is a change of pace.

I realise when I meet new people that the observation is true which someone once made about how if the vast amounts of memory committed over to sports fixtures and scores was devoted to something else we'd probably realise that the average level of expertise and mastery of complex, detailed subjects throughout the population is sky-high.

Also I should watch El Topo; there aren't enough banditos with Bren guns in my life.

Comments

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

For all that I hate professional sports, I think in many others most of that space is instead filled with equally useful information about celebrities and hairstyles.
(In me, it's comics universe continuity)

[vertigoranger.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I was making a sneering judgement or not, even though I do dislike sport intensely. If anything I was paying humanity in general a back-handed compliment.

I sometimes think I try to cultivate a Marmite thin knowledge of everything (except sport) but that it's always too thin to educate anybody on any subject.

[victorymarch.livejournal.com]

I love that description. "Marmite thin knowledge". I feel the same way, except when I talk to you, I feel like yours is maybe more substantial like peanut butter! Or perhaps a nice cream cheese.

Oh, the poor polymath who knows just enough to know they don't know enough about just about everything.