Suffering Fools Less Gladly
Jul. 26th, 2015 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeI have been a bit grumpy at people lately. In particular, I have told people who should be capable of knowing better when they're being foolish. As I said in a post on File 770 earlier today, ignorance can be cured; foolishness is much more difficult.
I sort of understand more and more why Bruce Pelz coined Special Rule #2 ("Shut up, Kevin") for me when I showed up all bright-eyed and eager at Worldcons and Westercons in the mid 1980s. I hope that in time it became clear that I was suffering more from ignorance than foolishness.
(As those of you who have been here for a long time know, my license place is a tribute to the memory of Bruce Pelz.)
I sort of understand more and more why Bruce Pelz coined Special Rule #2 ("Shut up, Kevin") for me when I showed up all bright-eyed and eager at Worldcons and Westercons in the mid 1980s. I hope that in time it became clear that I was suffering more from ignorance than foolishness.
(As those of you who have been here for a long time know, my license place is a tribute to the memory of Bruce Pelz.)
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Date: 2015-07-27 06:47 am (UTC)The lure of xkcd386 is extremely powerful and you are normally even-mannered with your comments.
In your defense, ignorance & foolishness has risen to painful levels in some venues.
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Date: 2015-07-27 04:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-07-27 08:49 pm (UTC)