(November 1, 2015 at 10:04 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 1, 2015 at 10:01 pm)Combanitorics Wrote: What do you think of people who would name as their "Idol" some pop star or dancer such as appears on the show "American Idol"? Are such people also intellectually bankrupt?
I would call them ignorant. But not as repugnant as someone taking a general as their role model. A general is only needed when some society already has declared intellectual bankrupcy.
One evening as I was watching some TV I saw Brittney Spears giving a USO concert to the Navy. I regret to report that the affair did not appear cerebral.
"You cannot ask us to take sides against arithmetic." --Winston Churchill