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The famous saying by Socrates goes “I know that I know nothing”.
Whenever I’m browsing the internet on the lookout for interesting blogs or book discussions, there is one thing that I notice.
It may be only endemic to my local inter-webs, but it seems that after decades of suppressing the natural evolution of thought, and basically skipping a generation due to repressions in the Soviet times, a new generation has surfaced of people suffering from the snobbish longing to be perceived as intellectuals.
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