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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman
Hi-tech does not increase your brain capacity: it merely exercizes your thumbs.
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No one ever claimed it did.
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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman
In fact, I sense from many of the responses that very few among you have bothered even to read in full or at all either of my essays but simply respond to each other's postings and vent with your thumbs instead of your minds.
Your responses, in fact, are troublingly similar, as though formed from the same pool of 50 or so monosyllabic words. This is, as I understand it, endemic to the level of discourse that occurs in hi-tech: a perpetual public convocation of spewing illiterates.
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Welcome to the human condition, where most are small minded regardless of the available education and possibility.
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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman
So, I'd like to extend the following invite to any on this site. Lets thumbwrestle for three shirtless private rounds in an alley of my choice, and see who's left victorious: my 6'2”, 200 pound, tattooed, 57 year old military veteran Bronx-born poetry writing streetfighting ass or your nerdy and ignorant Silicon Folly digitized selves.
If defeated, I'll French with a Kindle but if you go down, you must not only toss your device but read in full classics that I'll list, ranging from Marcus Aurelius, Sophocles, Homer and the Old Testament to Flaubert, Tolstoy, Babel, Stendahl, Proust and George Eliot, to name but a few.
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I gladly accept your offer. I'm a 6'3", 260lb corn fed, farm fresh, Missouri mule who will toss you around like a hay bale in a barn. However, I do not believe you have the testicular fortitude to actually back up your statements with action. I do not trust you any further to do any more than run your mouth, than your testes have dropped. Assuming they have at all.
By the way, I tend to stick to, and ultimately prefer the classics.