"But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice."
-- Charles Darwin, Letter to Asa Gray
Better get that phrase out there so I can start collecting royalties. By it I simply mean that if the growth of the net is turning us all into shallow water fish, then the Renaissance Man who knew a lot about a lot has become the Renaissance Fool, who knows just enough to crack wise over a broad range of the topics.
Oxymoron! One becomes vigorously lazy if you know what I mean, and you would if you felt like going to the trouble.
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