The best way to look wise
Wiliam Butler Yeats said the same thing in a poem, quite some
time ago.
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
It is always easiest to seem wise by being negative in the face of
overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Surely, to say such a silly
thing with a straight face, he must have some insight! But of
course that isn't so. He is really just as silly as he sounds.
In reply to: "Andrew Keen, the Web's Darth Vader?"
May 3, 2007
0 replies