goddamn this board irks me
>>14238381>so you stop there, rather that stuttering indignantly about your aunt minnienigger monkey retard. nigger. monkey.
First, he breaks down and identifies some of the implications and presuppositions of the question. When he starts applying them to other things, ridiculousness quickly emerges. His expounding on auntie sounds retarded because it's a consequence of the thinking the interviewer's question was posed with. Your assessment of it shaping up to indignant stuttering is accurate, and yet you're bitching about it because 60 seconds in you're already completely lost and you have no idea what's going on.
>Feynman is known for his ability to explain complex, convoluted, esoteric things in a simple, lucid way. He had skills, but there's really no hidden secret to it. If you can keep someone paying attention, then you can present them the information and configure it in their mind so they can learn whatever they came to learn, and anything they're willing to stick around to hear about. In either case, if the student isn't willing to listen, to be explained to (or able to pay attention), then there can be no education.
Herein lies the most fundamental part of the video. The interviewer's question was concerning the properties magnets.
>So did he ask, "Dr. Feynman, can you explain what's going on with these magnets here? How is this force at a distance being applied? And how can it be that rotating the magnets flips the direction of the force?"Of course not, he just asks
>whyIn that moment, he says to Feynman
>I want to understand this thing, I want you to make that happen. And no, I'm not looking for facts about it, I just want to understandThis clearly ground the man's gears. He deals with people 'dumber' than him all the time, but fortunately he found passion in teaching. When people came to him, they were willing to learn. That's probably why he found this man's arrogance, hubris, and apparent entitlement so contemptable.
