Comments on: George Orwell on Blog Comments, 1938

By: leaveguntakecannoli

leaveguntakecannoli — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 02:07:22 +0000

But, C Smith, what good are ideas without people?

And Lex, to apply this quote to the present day represents very stale, destructive thinking.

Have a nice day.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:11:41 +0000

C. Smith, “brutal” and “intellectually brutal” are two different things.

If one is certain that one KNOWs something, confident in one’s intellect, and it’s clearly demonstrated that one’s thought process has been inadequate to the task of comprehending the subject…..that can be pretty brutal.

By: C Smith

C Smith — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:54:26 +0000

Why waste time on people, when it’s the ideas that matter?
And why be brutal, when you can hand someone a series of questions and let them demolish their ideas at their leisure?