What I don't know...

Hmm, I sometimes forget that I can have opinions, opine until I start repeating myself, but I am shamefully low in a lot of knowledge many I look up to take for granted.

Sure, I had a brief bit of Latin at school, I have a smattering of Spanish, I know something of history, geography and sociology. I have a deep interest in psychology and communications media. I have a passive interest in cosmology and physics.

But I know very little about the technical nitty gritty of computers, HTML, classical literature, political history, art, poetry, anthropology, biology and many other topics.

In non-UK and US current affairs I really feel undone. I really know nothing of what goes on in South America, the Far East, Africa or..or..well you get the idea.

It boils down to the fact I am not the fastest reader in the world and I work about 70 hours a week. I don't mean my lips move when I read, I mean I simply read in such a way that means I don't need to reread it (it all goes in).

I am also so skint that buying a broadsheet paper on a daily basis is impossible and reading that sort of stuff on the internet is much much more time consuming.

So I'm left with simple gut reactions to things. I try to be detached but I largely rest my responses to subjects on the principle I outlined in earlier posts.

What set this little...thing off? I saw an "around the world in 80 seconds" segment on Fox News!! I, in my smug little way, thought typical Fox, devoting 80 pitiful seconds to non-American stories, how ill informed is the American public? But then they reported on protests in South Korea against Japan because there is some longrunning Falklands-style dispute between the two countries over some islands. Didn't know that. I would probably never have known that if I hadn't tuned into Fox News at that time. Scary. This sort of incident is a wakeup call and no mistake. If I need to tune into Fox News to fill in some knowledge blanks I REALLY need to get me some reading done, urgently.

I've also notice my spelling has drifted to the depths of a 10 year old. I don't know why, I just find myself totally unable to spell words I know for a fact I have used before. If it was CJD I would not be surprised. I was something of a cheeseburger addict 10 or 15 yearsago...

So, aside from this lack of varied knowledge, an everdiminishing spelling facility and a lack of creative juices (see, used lack twice in one sentence, similies are too much to generate!) this blog should be crammed to the rafters with insightful, high quality writing. Enjoy!!

Ah..christ.

A battle the Neo-cons lost...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm

This report tells a very important story. Nevermind that Big Oil won out over "mental neo-cons" just look at who the neo-cons are and what they wanted to do. It really is scary.