The Framed 1’s Life

When one of Albert Einstein’s colleagues asked the eminent physicist for his telephone number one day, he reached for a telephone directory and looked it up. “You don’t remember your own number?” the man asked, understandably startled. “No,” Einstein replied with a shrug. “Why should I memorize something I can so easily get from a book?”

Though this story is likely apocryphal, Einstein did claim never to memorize anything which could be looked up in less than two minutes.1

So…why the fuck is rote learning so prevalant in a googling society?

1http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=12510

From the Movie “The Third Man:”

“In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder bloodshed — they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, 500 years of Democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The Cuckoo Clock.” The further Irony: even the Cuckoo clock is a German Invention.1

On the Borgias: ‘Cesare Borgia murdered his brother-in-law for the love of his sister, who was the mistress of their father - the Pope.’2

So my point? Fuck Democracy and lets all bomb ourselves to progression! The harshest environment breeds the best survivors.

1 Quote can be seen at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man
2 From the book ‘Ogilvy on Advertising’