[FRIAM] New Mexican's Sunday's story on education proficiency

[Roger Critchlow]

The Murky Pond - I think that's the correct pragmatist metaphor for the
world and our lives in it.

My mother's parents owned a farm on the eastern shore of Maryland, a
traditional summer retreat from DC or NYC.  The farm, Leecote, had a roller
coaster dirt drive that wound from the improved road to the farmhouse on
the waterfront, a tidal creek which led to the Tred Avon River, to the
Choptank River, to the Chesapeake Bay, and so on.  On one side of the drive
there was a swimming pond.  Across the drive was another pond which my
uncle assured me was the home of a snapping turtle.  Hence I spent many
hours of my early childhood haunting a murky pond looking for, and
imagining various encounters with, a snapping turtle hiding in a murky pond.

I really like the first four pages of The Pragmatist Enlightenment, I hope
I can muster the will to read the rest.

(Soundtrack, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, A Hard Road,  "The
Super-Natural".)

-- rec --

On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 9:11 AM steve smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> REC -
>
> well found and well quoted... blink blink.  I would try to
> expand/expound but would surely just stir the mud I've already raised in
> this already murky pond...
>
> tx,
>
>   - SAS
>
> > This was kind of enlightening, too, on hackernews yesterday, in the
> > vein of 'Dude, what happened to liberalism?'
> >
> >
> https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/the-marketplace-of-misleading-ideas
> >
> > From a marketplace of ideas to a marketplace of rationalizations is
> > such a small shift, like one of those blink-and-it-flips optical
> > illusions, blink, blink, ....
> >
> > -- rec --
>
>
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