Older, but no wiser
Andy Borrows' musings on life and all its confusion, contradictions, richness and opportunities
Friday, March 07, 2008
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They’re missing the point. Or rather, they’re inadvertently illustrating the point rather well.
It always seemed to me that what Adams was saying, if indeed he was saying anything at all rather than just poking fun at all and sundry, was that we spend way too much time looking for answers when we’d learn a lot more by looking for the right questions.
(Unless of course they’re way cleverer than I give them credit for and the illustration is not inadvertent at all but deliberate…)
It always seemed to me that what Adams was saying, if indeed he was saying anything at all rather than just poking fun at all and sundry, was that we spend way too much time looking for answers when we’d learn a lot more by looking for the right questions.
(Unless of course they’re way cleverer than I give them credit for and the illustration is not inadvertent at all but deliberate…)
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