The last sentence is critical:
I am so grateful to have learned through BUGS what a real graduate seminar is and how important to the future a real graduate seminar can be.
And through BUGS I have learned that certain phases carry enormous power, something I did not know before BUGS.
“The Untrained Eye”, that is a phrase that has sunk into my consciousness pretty darned deeply. The intellectual core of BW revolves around that phrase.
Accordingly, I have learned that new worlds are born with the untrained eye and that the untrained eye is where revolutions come from. This is not trivial knowledge. How can we make a revolution if we don’t know where revolutions really come from?
Law is genuinely reformed with the untrained eye. And governments are reined in and put to rights with the untrained eye. It takes the untrained eye to do that.
That is why a revolution, any kind of revolution, could never come from academia.
And art, what art really is, entertains untrained eye as completely and fully (sometimes more) as the learned eye. And evidence that requires an “education” to interpret is not evidence. And analysis that is accessible to only the learned is not analysis.
That is why I have finally got it through my head that one telescope is worth a million formulas and I have a better handle of what constitutes good science than I ever had before.
This BUGS has improved my thinking enormously. It has put me miles ahead of where I ever thought I could get.
That’s why we here at BUGS truly are the leaders. If you don’t get that, you do not understand what is really going on.
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