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“In Greek mythology, the Pierian Spring of Macedonia was sacred to the Muses. As the metaphorical source of knowledge of art and science, it was popularized by a couplet in Alexander Pope's 1711 poem "An Essay on Criticism": "A little learning is a dang'rous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."
But what does it mean that my little learning is dangerous?

Here's the line in its original habitat from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism (1709):

"A little learning is a dangerous thing;
� drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
� and drinking largely sobers us again."

Flat earthers merely sip at the wellspring of knowledge and teeter in the Dunning Kruger effect (the fool, in all his folly and novice, thinks he’s more adept than the masters, and would seek to kill the masters if he could, until he gets schooled)

The Pierian Spring was a source of knowledge sacred to the Muses, in the shadow of Mount Olympus.
This is the very same Norse myth of Odin & the wellspring of Mimir at the base of the Yggdrasil tree.

It's a peculiar liquor. Sipping is the sin. Binging, in the sense of total immersion in wisdom and experience is the responsible behavior, taking one beyond giddy enthusiasm to a been-there, done-that wisdom.

In modern psychology, this logical fallacy is known as the Dunning Kruger Effect.

“a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence.[1]

As described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the bias results from an internal illusion in people of low ability and from an external misperception in people of high ability; that is, "the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."[1]

So who has the more unchecked ego, the fool who denounces debate and rejects criticism, or the master who takes critcism and has weathered the storm of the gauntlet, by engaging in scrutiny and peer review, to what is greater than self awareness?

Odin had to sacrifice his own eye as being valuable enough to drink from Mimirs wellspring of MEMORY (wisdom), teaching us that the reward of WISDOM comes with GREAT SACRIFICE, proving our conviction and commitment to a cause, a LONG GAME, that requires more than ourselves.

We must be willing to LET GO in order to GAIN.
“For if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out” and if thine eye be single, thee shall be enlightened, for in the land of the blind, the ONE EYED CYCLOPS IS KING.

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