How can one know it all?

Actually, there's a lot of cultural observance of 'fools' in many human societies, mostly the less advanced ones I note. Education goes a long way to creating contempt for the foolish. Probably why I lost my tem,per at a 'fool' the other day at work for over-stacking a pallet. At least he isn't foolsih enough to attempt communication with me right now :D

Athena wrote: caldrail wrote: Actually, there's a lot of cultural observance of 'fools' in many human societies, mostly the less advanced ones I note. Education goes a long way to creating contempt for the foolish. Probably why I lost my tem,per at a 'fool' the other day at work for over-stacking a pallet. At least he isn't foolsih enough to attempt communication with me right now :D Hum, I guess I am a very foolish person because I make mistakes all the time.  I don't think being yelled at would get positive results.  That would probable undermine my self confidence even more, increasing my stress and stress reduces my brain function even more.    Stress is probably the main reason many do poorly on a test.  Old age seems to make our lives even more challenging, as we can't think of the word we want to use, or other things slip our minds.  I try to be philosophical about this and remind myself, it isn't being human.  When I took training for being a supervisor, it was the democratic model and we were trained to coach people with words of encouragement and not to yell at them.  I was impressed with the notion that our families might be more successful if the democratic model I learned for supervising others, was common to all industry.  Old age makes me more sensitive to such things.   With intention we might be a gentler and more successful nation.

Just for the sake of discussion, I am under the impression that the US modeled its industry after England's autocracy and that means being abused by an employer who doesn't give a sh*t about the employees and will dump on them or even fire them to cover their own asses or in reaction to a momentary feeling,

Oh yeah you are right about those things.  Do you mean it isn't like that in Australia?

Of course, the harder you make it for an employer to get rid of a bad apple, the more expensive you make that mistake, and the more expensive you make it for them to hire someone new, knowing that the same thing may happen again.  This penalizes most of all, people who do not have any work experience.  While for some people who have decent jobs, the debate is about whether everybody should get a living wage.  The problem, however, for those just starting out, is just to get a job on the bottom rung of the ladder so they can get their foot in the door.  It is not a matter of living wage, but any wage (with the understanding that they are not going to be stuck there).  It is much easier to get a job, if you have a job, or have had a job.

Are we going just a little off topic here?

I remember an acerbic comment from my flying instructor when I casually said "Well you know we learn from our mistakes". His answer was "Mistakes in aeroplanes can be fatal. Learn from those who made them previously and are still around."

I sometimes wonder if there is anything that is completely "off-topic."  I mean if everything is related to everything, then nothing is absolutely off topic.  It is like the game 5 degrees of Kevin Bacon.  You relate one actor (A) to another (B), to another (C), to another (D), to another (E) and you connect just about anyone in Hollywood to anyone else.  Going back to the silent era is a challenge and I imagine that there are other problems that can pop up.  But, I believe my brother has a friend who used study sea slugs, which turn out to have characteristic with medical implications.  But, of course, that doesn't mean that if you come with something totally in left field that you will be able to bring it back into connection with highly relevant things in our daily lives.  More likely, you will get totally distracted and never get back to the path.