James Brody
February 9th, 2009, 11:58 AM
The assumption of environment's power and, therefore, responsibility, blinds us. After we pass our eighth birthday, we are ever more clearly in charge for the manufacture of whatever environments we experience.
BHO, in my opinion, exhibits the tactics of a pusher and probably has done so since before high school. "Experience" will not cure BHO but make him a more skillful pusher. (See my postings under "A little coke more.")
There's also an opportunity here: how much of Nixon's peculiarities were exaggerated by a blood clot from his leg? What parts of Joe Biden's lapses pivot on CNS damage? Did George Bush have ADHD (a lapse with attention to detail and persistence)? Did John McCain's reticence and confusion during the campaign grow from beatings he experienced in Hanoi?
This topic is a BIG one! Nick Goldberg, for example, argues for an atrophy of the male's right cortex and for a similar withering of the frontal left areas in both males and females. (See Goldberg, E. [2001] The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind. NY: Oxford University Press; Goldberg, E. [2006] The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Brain Can Grow Stronger As You Grow Older. NY: Gotham.)
One common outcome is that older people do whatever they once did but for reasons of decay rather than new success. And with less variation, we also attempt to rein in the younger folks whose brains still function in creative ways...
JimB
"Obama's Inexperience Painfully Obvious
"Josh Painter
"Monday, February 9th at 8:15AM EST
"After two weeks on the job our new president's inexperience is painfully obvious. The words of his political rivals from the primaries and the general election seem almost prophetic in retrospect.
"Hillary Clinton, warned on the campaign trail in Knoxville, TN in November of 2007:
"There is one job we can't afford: on-the-job training for our next president."
More at http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/02/09/obamas-inexperience-painfully-obvious/
BHO, in my opinion, exhibits the tactics of a pusher and probably has done so since before high school. "Experience" will not cure BHO but make him a more skillful pusher. (See my postings under "A little coke more.")
There's also an opportunity here: how much of Nixon's peculiarities were exaggerated by a blood clot from his leg? What parts of Joe Biden's lapses pivot on CNS damage? Did George Bush have ADHD (a lapse with attention to detail and persistence)? Did John McCain's reticence and confusion during the campaign grow from beatings he experienced in Hanoi?
This topic is a BIG one! Nick Goldberg, for example, argues for an atrophy of the male's right cortex and for a similar withering of the frontal left areas in both males and females. (See Goldberg, E. [2001] The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind. NY: Oxford University Press; Goldberg, E. [2006] The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Brain Can Grow Stronger As You Grow Older. NY: Gotham.)
One common outcome is that older people do whatever they once did but for reasons of decay rather than new success. And with less variation, we also attempt to rein in the younger folks whose brains still function in creative ways...
JimB
"Obama's Inexperience Painfully Obvious
"Josh Painter
"Monday, February 9th at 8:15AM EST
"After two weeks on the job our new president's inexperience is painfully obvious. The words of his political rivals from the primaries and the general election seem almost prophetic in retrospect.
"Hillary Clinton, warned on the campaign trail in Knoxville, TN in November of 2007:
"There is one job we can't afford: on-the-job training for our next president."
More at http://www.redstate.com/josh_painter/2009/02/09/obamas-inexperience-painfully-obvious/