(June 18, 2015 at 7:21 am)Iroscato Wrote:(June 17, 2015 at 4:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Once I hit retirement age they were of no more use to me.
Huh. I had you in mind as being in your 40's at the latest for some reason...
I have a question, not exactly historical but related to it. Overall, do you think we are getting better at learning from history and learning from our mistakes?
He is in his 60's. He seems at least that old to me, and I would not have been surprised if he were in his 70's (but he is only in his 60's). That, by the way, is not intended as an insult of any kind. He seems to have a good amount of experience with life, and has that crotchety old man vibe, from a life of hearing too much bullshit from idiots over the years, and has little patience left for nonsense. He has patience with reasonable questions, but not for idiotic bullshit.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
