I did NOT say that those who are interested in abstract ideas do not have a life.
I said that those who look forward to an old-fashioned societal collapse are usually the ones who have no lives.
In fact, what I said was that we need to package our ideas, not wait around for a collapse or obsess over Iraq.
I get tired every time what I say is taken personally. Mostly I was making fun of me.
Oh.
I don't know. Seems to me who has a life and who doesn't have a life, as the saying goes, is a matter of opinion. Like at an AA meeting (closed, thank you). Hi, I'm Joe, and I don't have a life. Chorus of fifty million people: "Hi, JOe." Who is to say I don't have a life? It's an opinion. Even at that meeting we just attended I could be wrong. Maybe I do have a life and I don't know it. Where did this nonsensical idea of "get a life" come from anyway? Can't blame that one on the professors. Or can you? Don't tell me they're behind that one too. Everybody has a life. Even that guy under the bridge. You know, the one with the brown bag clutched tightly to his chest. If someone said to me that I didn't have a life I would consider that his opinion. He's entitled to his opinion. I may have a different view.