(4) The original tweeter giving this quote deplores that Japan is on its quick way to extinction. I wonder what is happening to the education of native and foreign languages in other countries. Is literature useless, as many people seem to be asserting nowadays?
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Humanity is devolving back to an oral, tribalistic revival via electronic media. Literacy is outdated; archaic. Get with it, old man.
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Well, I'm the kind of guy that would rather rebel in this devolution of humankind toward general idiocy. I refuse to be content to be with pigs who constitute the majority.
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I hear that. I'm a lonely sonuvabitch. Very few I can bear to be around for very long. The pigheaded, functionally illiterate ignorance is really strong here in America.
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(1) Yeah, Antwan, now that you say it, I think I can imagine what a difficult position you are in. Although I've never been in your country, I hear it's full of anti-intellectualism. (And Panda says that trend is strong in her country as well.)
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(2) Not only that, you're in none other than Appalachia, where I imagine such a trend is particularly strong. I wonder how such widely read people as you and Panda have been managing to put up with people around. But then again, things are more or less the same here too.
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(3) Just like you, I'm a lonely guy too. Ever since I was a teenager, my only true friends have been the dead authors of great books from throughout the world. Those people, although many of them may have been misfits or on the crazy side, must have striven all their lives to ...
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(4) overcome their weakness, pettiness, ignorance. I'm not the kind of guy that asserts that knowledge is everything. There are certainly those who are very good at associating with people or adept at making things with their hands or at sports even if not intellectual.
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(5) But I hate those who are pig-headed enough to despise those who happen to be bad at the skills they have. I like those who know their limits and always strive to be better than what they were yesterday, instead of working to be better than other people.
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Appalachia is beautiful. And cost of living is easier. I lived in cities most of my life. The ignorance there is as great as anywhere, if not moreso. Intellectuals are not necessarily wise. They are mostly just better schemers.
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The hill folk generally leave you alone. In the city, people are always imposing themselves on you in one way or another. After living in a rural district, I never want to have to live in a city again. I can walk out my backdoor here and I am in a forest.
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(1) I'm glad you've found a great place to live in. In Japan, however, country folk don't leave you alone. City people, on the other hand, leave you alone. At least that's what we always hear. I've never lived in the country before.
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(2) Besides, I don't think I can get along well in a rural area where you have to do everything all by yourself and where medical care and book delivery service and other transportation are hard to come by.
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