Originally Posted by Dirtfarmer
If everyone has to reinvent the wheel for himself, why have books, why have education?

In that scenario, we all enter this life in a cave with nothing, starting from scratch... frown

The beauty of civilization is accumulated knowledge and wisdom. giving us a jump on cave men.

DF


I didn't enter this world in a cave. Did you? None of us start from scratch. We look around and see a world in front of us. We let others make sense of it for us to a large extent. Those others may or may not be correct in their interpretations either. This is one of the core conflicts in the life of anyone who must take responsibility for their own life. We all build upon the ideas of the past, whether they are true or false, valid or invalid. There is no other way to do it.

I belong on eroding granite, among the pines.