I remember when I young, okay, when I was a child, grade 3 or something our gymnastic teacher used to repeat some limerick, over and over again.

It went something like this:

those that know they know not [something something something ] and those that think they know not but know not [something something ]

I had a conversation with my brother, early this morning (2am or so) and I was telling him I was getting annoyed by some young fellow who seems to lack the intellectual capacity to see the error of what he does.

and I came to this conclusion:

It is better to know what you do not know, than not knowing what you do not know

What that means, is, if you think you know something and you are not aware that you do not know it, how will you know what you are hearing (or reading, or seeing) is something you should know?

It will go over your head (as the metaphor goes) --- but if you are aware that you do not know something, it will present itself as 'new knowledge' and if I am right, no one can fight the mind in trying to learn something new, it's almost automatic, right?

Alas, in closing:

Don't people reflect on the work they do anymore?  Don't people try to make sense of what it is they have created?

Without reflection, how do you know you have 'created' anything, at all?

I need coffee, good morning.

I have been thinking about

knowing something

and

knowing what it means to know it

I do not have a good command of the English language, so I'm pretty sure somebody else would put those thoughts more eloquently.

I think, that is the very problem that I have with the 'youth' or rather this 'new' generation:

they are exposed to a whole lot of ish, they know a whole lot of ish than the previous generation.

but

they lack the ability to understand what it means to know what they know.

Which, to me at the least, means, they don't know anything --- or rather what they know has no value, to them.

I'm too lazy to throw in some analogies to further explain myself, but, if you looked around you'll see it.

Till next time.