I for one have difficulty connecting with the feeling in Skeptic-D that moves him to aver that:

Angus: "I feel a need to comment that calculations concerning the volume of knowledge "in the world" all suggest that we now have far more knowledge that we can conceivably find helpful to living."

is contradicted by:

Skeptic-D: "I beg to differ. We just happen to live in a society that has a real issue with literacy. When it comes to language and linguistics society as a whole comes up rather short. When seven out of ten can't name the vice president and half can't name the capitol city of the state they live in it gives some indication of the state of interest people have of the world around them."