THE most frustrating part is trying to convince ppl they've been fooled, it's 99% impossible in my experience.
blame pacifism, where all feel smart, where all consequences are postponed to "later".<br /> "all you can do is warn them. if they dont listen, move on so you can warn others."
I use “we” loosely because Swisher’s intended audience is not you or me, but instead those with power: she writes about and for them. Over the course of a long and storied career closely reporting on the tech industry and its titans, she has aped their motions, sat at their dinner tables, drunk their wine, gone to their weird parties, played with their baubles, repeated their lies, and offered them counsel. Swisher may style herself as Silicon Valley’s critic laureate, but she’s much closer to the court fool.
Ouch!
The bad reader is lost amonggood books. He lacks the highest pleasure available to man,according to Mrs. Woolf. If she is right, none but a fool would refuseto learn to read as well as he can.
Even the sloppiest manuscript would bring twenty new cards for my hoard.
This quote is similar to the broad idea (source(s)?) that one can learn something even from the worst books or the man who's a fool.
I've excerpted the portion of the quote that appears before this in the past. See: https://hyp.is/jqug2tNlEeyg2JfEczmepw/3stages.org/c/gq_title.cgi?list=1045&ti=Foucault%27s%20Pendulum%20(Eco)
This can also be considered The Iceberg Principle. The 10% (really 9%) you do see is only visible because of the 90% (really 91%) you don't see. Without that 90% you don't get the 10%.
Often you may need to dig below the surface of something to find it's real value.
This is related to quotes about being able to find something interesting, redeeming, valuable about bad books as well as being able to learn from the fool.
The moralist critique of ostentatious book owning articulated by Seneca in the first century CE was at the core of Sebastian Brant’s complaints in his Ship of Fools (1494).19
Compare this idea to the recent descriptions of modern homes using books solely for decoration or simply as "wallpaper".
And pundits quipped, "Nothing is more common than a fool with a strong memory."