French Folly

[porphyry]

This does not speak well of the French educational sysytem:


http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8493010508114425938

Comments

[petrusplancius.livejournal.com]

That's really funny! But the French educational system is rather better than the system here in Britain; ignorance of this kind is an international phenomenon.

[siamhussein.livejournal.com]

Il le faut un vrai con pour faire appel au publique ! Quel abruti!

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

As Plato teaches us, it is always idiotic to appeal to the public for truth.

[petrusplancius.livejournal.com]

On second thoughts, it's actually untrue, is it, to say that the sun goes round the earth? it's all a matter of perspective.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Lets not turn to post-modernism. This was all hashed out in the early 17th century.

[petrusplancius.livejournal.com]

Nothing to do with post-modernism; it is simply that from our point of view, as earth-dwellers, the sun passes through the sky around us.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

that is the difference between what seems and what is, not a matter of perspective. But there was no excuse for that original confusion.

Watson once said that Holmes did not know whether the earth went round the sun, or the sun round the earth, because the matter did not concern the science of detection, but I doubt if that whole audience had a similar excuse.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Non, non, non--the reason why these people were all so confused was because they believe that the entire universe revolves around "La France." The question, therefore, was entirely improperly phrased to their sensibilities.