Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Bob Lewis of Infoworld
"Random thought:
Most people don't peel the onion very far (a phrase I stole from one of
R. A. Lafferty's books), which is to say they don't see very far beneath
the surface of things, if at all. If you need evidence, read the letters
to the editor in your local newspaper and see how often these missives
are nothing more than cut-and-paste restatements of something that came
out of one of the political parties, or else from the broadcast
punditocracy, with no more thought added than you'd get from a parrot
who learned the same meaningless phrases.
Then there's the opposite vice: There comes a time in onion-peeling when
there's no onion left.
- Bob"
Most people don't peel the onion very far (a phrase I stole from one of
R. A. Lafferty's books), which is to say they don't see very far beneath
the surface of things, if at all. If you need evidence, read the letters
to the editor in your local newspaper and see how often these missives
are nothing more than cut-and-paste restatements of something that came
out of one of the political parties, or else from the broadcast
punditocracy, with no more thought added than you'd get from a parrot
who learned the same meaningless phrases.
Then there's the opposite vice: There comes a time in onion-peeling when
there's no onion left.
- Bob"
