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Old 09-01-2008, 09:55 AM posted to aus.gardens
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FarmI wrote:
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FarmI wrote:


Unfortunately there are at least 2 classes of critics amongst the general
populace. There is the mindless crowd that seems to be most vocal and is
generally made up of the really dumb Joe Public who simply whinges, talks
to John Laws or Alan Jones or the varous other State shock jocks and is
totally clueless. Those who carried on about Chapelle Corby were this
type of person. Then there are another sort of critic who actually uses
their head and trys to gather information, does some analysis and then
makes up their mind. I think that we are blessed with too many of the
former and too few of the latter.


Hmm I reckon Bernard Shaw saw it right when he said “Two percent of the
people think; three percent of the people think they think; and
ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.”


Oooh lovely! I saw a good one liner yesterday:
"Your best side! You're sitting on it!"



He also said "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world.

The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.

All progress, therefore, depends upon the unreasonable man."

It still depends on how smart he is...