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National Improve Yourself Intellectually Day

by Dino Corvino on June 26th, 2009

Rib Mountain June 21

I chose this photo because you can see a concerned pained look in my eyes.

Today I start a movement. All by myself, right here on this blog, and on twitter and facebook. I am sick and tired, and angry, and Joe the friggin Moron Plumber is in my town, and I just have had enough. So, I create this holiday. I choose to stop the tide, and call time out. We need to address this. We need to say something. We need to stop what we are doing, and we need to just read a book and buy a set of encyclopedias.

We, as a culture, have become sated with the talking point heads, that spew forth nonsense and jibberish. We have learned to accept local leaders so entrenched that they fail to lead or follow, they just sort of exist in a petri dish of funk.

So, I call for a day of fact checking, intellectual acuity. Both left and right. Both republican and democrat, pro choice and pro life people.

Just one day, when we shall have the facts to back up our life. Just one day when we actively choose to read something nonfiction for the purpose on internalizing a fact or ten.

So let us flood social media with the hashtag #improveyourselfintellectually

So let us join this lovely social networking site http://intellectimprovement.ning.com

Let us seek out others who want to learn, and let us support them.

Here is my challenge to you…

1. Donate ten bucks, and check out ten books from your local library.
2. At the very least point and laugh at the talking heads who you know are not trying to do anything other than spew. At the best, send those people an email, and ask them to shut up. Boycott the talking heads of both the left and the right.
3. Start a blog, right here if you like. Put together a reading list, and read a book a week for a year.
4. Do some yoga.
5. Buy a Jim Carlson or Scott Holt record.
6. Know, deep inside, that you are smart and able to have your own thoughts and ideas, and you can find rational for them.

I wish you luck. IMPROVE YOURSELF

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4 Responses

  1. John H. Fischer

    9:08 am on June 26th

    I have recently actually been accusued of being one of these so called “talking heads” – which I find funny as I am more of a “typing hands” person…

    so.. alas.. the battle for me may have already been lost.. but I encourage others of strength to go on without me..

    LOL


  2. Dino Corvino

    9:39 am on June 26th

    GET THEE TO A LIBRARY. Read a book. Not a book about work. Read a new topic, maybe a cookbook.


  3. John H. Fischer

    11:14 am on June 26th

    I thought that is why I married a librarian… so that trips the library were no longer needed.

    :P


  4. Terry VanOrder

    12:06 pm on June 27th

    I actually went to the library last week for the first time in many years. Re-newed my card. Checked out 7 books…some “learning” stuff, some for sheer enjoyment.

    And I DO send emails to my politicians. I’m not saying I’m very smart, but I am opiniated.


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