Do you think it would be a good idea if we changed the title from Bob’s Blog to Bob’s Moot?
This would emphasize the fact that this is a seminar, not a lecture.
Bob LEADS this Moot, but it is no fun and little intellectual profit to ME if I am the only one doing the talking.
In the usual course, the professor feeds the students and then tests them and gives the final judgement whether they have absorbed HIS points. I hope Bob’s Blog has moved beyond that.
Yes, I want you to stay on subject. But I do NOT want this to be just absorb and regurgitate. I want to PLANT a way of thinking in you. When I die, I want you to go ahead and improve on a base I set.
When I am just plain wrong, I want YOU to tell me so.
When I’m no longer here, I want you to tell each other how to proceed.
I want ideas popping up that needed my basic way of thinking to get started, but which I would be amazed at.
It scares me when, as in the congressional debate on renewing the ban on the IRS setting racial quotas for private schools, the people on my side forgot all the basics as soon as I was not there.
Why can’t somebody else tell a TV interviewer who saysd it is critical that immigrants and Americans getting together in this country,
“They’ve GOT a country.”
Nobody else seems to remember that.
Basics, basics, BASICS!
And from basics, you PROCEED.
I get a bit desperate, gang.
SOMEBODY besides me has to STICK to the basics.
And “basics” mean something you PROCEED from.
I can’t do all the proceeding.
I CAN’T DO ALL THE PROCEEDING.
So every time a commenter goes back into the standard stuff, I feel terribly let down.
Don’t talk about stuff here that you can talk about just anywhere. Let’s concentrate on OUR basics.
Are there any comments, questions, disagreements?
#1 by LibAnon on 04/23/2006 - 2:33 pm
“this is a seminar, not a lecture”
Then call it “Bob’s Seminar”! “Bob’s Moot” sounds too much like “Bob’s Irrelevant”, which Bob clearly is not.
“I feel terribly let down.”
You’re not going to find equals here, Bob. You are an authentic genius, and since there’s only one of those per two million or so, the odds are unlikely that another one is going to turn up here. Geniuses are always let down by their followers.
So what keeps our race going forward, to the extent that it DOES go forward, is not genius but the Golden Rule. Simple, but not easy. If you’re going to ask us to make a greater EFFORT to understand you, you’re going to have to make an even greater effort to understand US. One of the biggest problems here is that your responses to people are often so out of line with what they actually SAID that it simply boggles the mind.
#2 by Shari on 04/23/2006 - 6:25 pm
Yes, Please don’t give up. As you said, a match will be lit. No matter how smart someone is they can’t know everything so you just never know when.
#3 by Shari on 04/23/2006 - 7:12 pm
ps. I do know that there is a difference between a seminar and a lecture, so I should probably shutup entirely.
#4 by Mark on 04/24/2006 - 12:10 am
“ps. I do know that there is a difference between a seminar and a lecture, so I should probably shutup entirely.”
Shari you are a wise woman — I can tell just by that staement. If my wife said she was gonna’ shut up my mouth would drop open and I’d be speechless for weeks. They don’t make wise women like you anymore. I hope you don’t shut up cause I can tell youre smarter than me and most of the men on here.
#5 by Antonio Fini on 04/24/2006 - 10:53 am
It’s not moot Bob.
Nobody ever hacked Lew Rockwell.