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Very nice and very true, Jose P.
Fun with toys.
This one of the best analogies I’ve seen.
I shudder to think of what would happen to an epic poem like Beowulf. It is hard enough for humans to turn that Old English verse into modern English, let alone a form that carries engaging meaning. Seamus Heaney did so in 2000, with his translation and the original text side-by-side. At the end of his life, he published a new verse translation of one book in Virgil’s Aeneid.
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Like people who haven’t the understanding that would enable them to recognize when the sophisticated object in their pocket hasn’t told them what they sought to find out , or the understanding of what it can’t tell them——yes, it’s spooky how very much the people rioting in the streets seem like that.
What did we do ?
Thanks for this. I have now subscribed to Translator Fails. That opera vid was genial! /Google translate for “awesome” in German.
You have offered up an outstanding bit of wisdom and fun. (Well some misery too, when I’m thinking about how the Antifa’s brains are mush due to “digital intelligence” massively influencing their every thought and move.)
As we embark into “the internet of things” it is only going to get worse. (I wish the coming age would be called “Parents meet Kiwis” as at least that would give people pause as to what is in store for us.)
Ten years from now, will a newer crop of Antifa even know that the first version is totally gibberish?
Well if your “we” includes parents who insisted that cell towers be put up every quarter mile or so in order for them to check on their teenagers safety, I’d say that we helicopter- parented entire generations right into a world devoid of critical thought.
Emojis seem to be the addictive candy of the brain pans of the young. If the grey matter is exposed to such before being given a truly meaningful wiring of the brain, such as once came about through memorizing math tables, learning cursive writing, being made to write out term papers, there is no sense of logic or proportion. Without that necessary sense of logic or proportion, individuals are caught up in wanting immediate results, which take only days and that are free from tiresome processes that take months if not years.
Where has the new “mindset” brought these newer generations to stand? Why right to this cliff above the abyss: “So let’s smash America to bits so we can then work to improve it – that’s the ticket”
Inside the thinking (if you can call it that) of the young now so afflicted, as they do lack logic and proportion, a tragedy becomes evident. Many of us are old enough we might hopefully be spared this horrifically tragic experiment’s logical outcome.
Yet it is clearly obvious to those of us outside such a mindset that they have no way to realize how they are stuck in a maze that is incomprehensible in its complexity of endlessly circling deeper into the maze. Normally people outside the Matrix can help some people climb out, but to attempt it with this Antifa-inspired mob means only to be shouted down for our racism.