Now we find ourselves advancing toward technologies that, forty years ago, existed only on science-fiction shows, but, somehow, instead of becoming abstract creatures of light, sound, and pure wisdom, we're still sitting on the couch in our Jockey shorts wolfing down pizza and cursing the ref. We may be looking at a thinner screen, but we're wearing the same old underpants.
In the face of a worsening economy, and polls that show 70percentt of the French think new demonstrations would end in violence, a presidential choice in favor of the lesser risk of greater deficit spending may soon have the look of pure wisdom.
That something is pure Wisdom".
Unlike other things that seemed like a good idea at the time but are revealed as pure folly with the wisdom of age - lovebites and Trotskyism immediately come to mind - books are becoming at any age.
It has fertility and abundance in its ideas, the skill it took to make them real, generosity of thought, wit and un-pomposity, sumptuousness, pure antipathy to received wisdom, and the sheer outrageous nerve to go out and do it.
As Julie Burchill puts it in her introduction to Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (proudly a VMC since 2003): 'Unlike other things which seemed like a great idea at the time, but are revealed as pure folly with the wisdom of age - lovebites and Trotskyism spring immediately to mind - books are becoming at any age.
The established law and economics wisdom considers pure economic loss as a transfer of wealth from the victim to a third party, whose earnings increase as a consequence of the accident.
In particular, the results show that being located in a cluster per se actually has a negative effect on firm R&D intensity, which is in contrast to the conventional wisdom of pure or automatic localized knowledge spillovers, as far as firm R&D intensity is concerned.
And applying his wisdom, one sees pure fantasy in the idea that eliminating vital safety regulations would miraculously eradicate societal costs.
As in "The Culture of Fear" (Basic Books), Mr. Glassner exposes the strained interpretations, "prejudices dressed up as science," and pure fabrications behind much received wisdom simply by checking out sources with an eye to original meanings.
Because he did not get the gig, and because of similar career starts and stops, he found his way to the right thing at the right time, his ideal form: pure talk, angst, hard-won wisdom, on a podcast, using the brilliant insights and damaged relationships he'd developed along the way as fodder for great listening.
