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[wispfox]

Hee!

From starandrea's Notice page today:

"I told my sister that, in my ideal world, everyone would be smarter and friendlier than I am.
Then, no matter where I went or what I did, I would be welcome and educated."

I wanna live in that world, _too_! (wait. I'm not entirely convinced I _don't_...)

And look at the pretty! (sparkly...)

(OK, I'm disturbingly cheerful today, especially for someone whose been up since 6:30am. Yay for no longer being sick and exhausted!)

Comments

[ladytabitha.livejournal.com]

Imbalance.  I like my world, a mixture of people to learn from and people to teach.

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

The brilliant thing that happens is that if you seek out people who are smarter than you, whatever your relative *knowledge*, a positive feedback loop gets set up where you are both teaching and learning from each other.

[ladytabitha.livejournal.com]

In which case, the language fails, specifically with the usage of the phrase "smarter than".  If someone is all-around smarter than me, they've nothing to learn from me, or nine times out of ten they'll think so.  If someone has greater $value-strength than me, that's different, and more clear.

($value can be things like "geek", "philosophy", "athletics", whatever.)

Re: an ideal world

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

I would be lost in a world where I couldn't teach people. In my ideal world, we would all be teaching each other what we most loved; infusing others with that love while they would be infusing us with what they loved.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*smiles* Honestly, I think that was at least part of the idea behind it. Because... there is no one who knows everything.

Dunno. Words aren't working very well today...

Re: words

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

I can certainly see the two strongly intersecting. I've been trying to come up with an elegant way to say that I think that's what you meant but I couldn't so I'm just saying it in a rambling, somewhat incoherent way...