Philospohers and academics, move over. Sages and humanists, shove off. It turns out the really searing insights of our age are being made by fourteen year old Lowell Truluck of Overland Park, Kansas.
Lowell's first nugget of existentialism was volleyed at his father, Daniel, earlier this month.
"During an argument wherin I was sending my son to his room," Truluck the elder explained, "Lowell turned to me and shouted 'Life isn't fair.' Well I tell you, that really hit home with me. A day or two later I was talking to a friend of mine who works as a philosophy professor at the University of Kansas and I happened to repeat Lowell's remark. My friend was stunned. He told me there are legions of would-be holy men sitting on mountaintops in Tibet who could never hope to glean that kind of wisdom."
Young Lowell's other proclamations of mathematics being "totally bogus" and Dallas Cowboy quarterback Tony Romo being "so lame" have already inspired T-shirts, web pages, and round table discussions in universities across the country.
Written by Dignan
