In case I forget
May 12th, 2010
Reddit post about someone’s stupid (as in mentally not very strong) girlfriend, which resulted in a discussion about the Dunning Kruger effect (ie. that incompetent people are too incompetent to know judge how incompetent they are), upon which someone quoted this beautiful gem from Yeats:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.- William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming
Just putting it here because I’d like to be able to memorize and quote it someday. Sadly, not being too smart I have to hide behind the greatness of others.
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