A quotation from Colton, C. C.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her footsteps, has further to go, before she can arrive at the truth, than ignorance.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 1 (1820)

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[2022-08- 5 13:48:10] * sublim20 alerts the woke police on phryk
[2022-08- 5 13:55:08] * Digit remembers when being awake was shorthand for having become aware of the grand corporate political nepotistic revolving-door rigged-game crookedness, before those crooks orwellianised it, spun it, not only to redirect attention away from themselves to protect themselves, but to get those who would turn on them, to turn on each other instead, and so now wonders what to call being aware of this... "awake woke awakening"?

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ps, is woke a sort of past tense of awake, so it's asleep again? ;]
canny you dont get riled into obliviously weaponising your loving compassion, against your good intentions. :)

Books that I read in 2021 - number 33:

So this book has accompanied me for a long time, because I read very slowly. Since I have no academic background, it was difficult for me to understand everything, and yet the book has fascinated and inspired me very much. The queer look into the founding myths of various ancient cultures makes the present and the past merge.

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