Really. I didn’t see a single word and I didn’t watch the Webb response (which, I understand, was terrific) and I didn’t see any of the televised news reports. I ran across a Washington Post analysis of the speech and Webb’s response by mistake or I’d know even less. I’ve got post election burnout. Tuesday night is my regular AA meeting and that’s where I was (after a brief appearance at Kat’s B-Party).
As far as I’m concerned, he is or should be soon irrelevant and I hate his facial expressions and faux Texas accent. All hat and no cattle, as Molly Ivens says.
It’s funny that all us bloggers blogged about not watching the State of the Union. And I did get on the wisdom discussion on 3:40. I like what you said about bitter experience. I think as long as you’re commited to learning from experience, not just resenting it, you can gain wisdom. But there are lots of people with lots of experience that use it as a rub-it-in-the-young-peoples’-face argument than a true I’ve-learned-something-from-this argument. I mean, I know people who say, “Well, I’m older than you, therefore I understand [insert situation] better,” when i fact, they’ve applied their supposed experiences only to their neuroses rather than any real wisdom or personal growth. Does that make any sense?
(I probably should have posted this on mcarp’s blog, but I just thought of it.)
I’m in my mid 50s and still hate that I’m-older-than-you crap. I’m with you on that one.
I don’t know why some people have knowledge and bitter experience and can’t quite seem to put it together into wisdom. I can see a fallible human missing some wisdom some of the time, but some people never seem to get 2+2 to quite equal 4. Perhaps your formulation that they only apply their bitter experience to their neurosis is pretty close. Myself, I mostly just call ‘em Republicans, but that’s another blog.
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“Late 50s”, muffinhead.
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