“Thought For The Day” is a daily three-minute religious-flavoured sermon on current events that goes out on BBC Radio 4 six days a week around 07:45, slotted into its daily 3-hour news programme “Today”. (Perennially, people question why, yet it continues.)
Some years back there was a recurring speaker in the slot—possibly Anne Atkins, I’m not sure—who from time to time would take as her topic some recent discovery or pronouncement from scientists. She always had one of two reactions: to expostulate either “well of COURSE!” or “what NONSENSE!”
When I noticed the pattern, my thought for the day was that you can go through life meeting each new thing with one or other of those reactions, and so avoid the indignity of ever being seen to learn something.
“Thought For The Day” is a daily three-minute religious-flavoured sermon on current events that goes out on BBC Radio 4 six days a week around 07:45, slotted into its daily 3-hour news programme “Today”. (Perennially, people question why, yet it continues.)
Some years back there was a recurring speaker in the slot—possibly Anne Atkins, I’m not sure—who from time to time would take as her topic some recent discovery or pronouncement from scientists. She always had one of two reactions: to expostulate either “well of COURSE!” or “what NONSENSE!”
When I noticed the pattern, my thought for the day was that you can go through life meeting each new thing with one or other of those reactions, and so avoid the indignity of ever being seen to learn something.
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