Today's Journal

BEING BETTER PREPARED

Tom Nichols, American writer and academic wrote:

“People thinking they’re smart because they searched the Internet is like thinking they’re good swimmers because they got wet walking through a rainstorm.”

This search for content and waffle-lined wisdom is what I call a ‘hunter and gather and blogger.’ Now, the new tools of various AI and other sources do the hunting, gathering and blogging for a person without them ever leaving the cave. The cave-dweller can stay home and paint Triceratops on the cave walls and smash acorns between two rocks and drink Lattes rather than do personal research.

I’m headed over to the other side of the Pond to have some Cuban Coffee and Bartlett Pear Crisp with Caramel Sauce and try to remember the times I left the cave and the times I stayed caved-in. Have mercy, Lord. Protect us all from what’s now called, AI slop, Internet piddles and Nothing Burgers.

We need a Rock to stand on, as well as a rock to paint on.

“Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.” Jesus