Ring of Phrase

By now its "unteachable mediocrity" is old news in India and those who had been following election news abroad. That phrase has a certain ring that made it resonate. It exceeds the acceptable level of snide in respectable journalism by just enough. Equal or worse has been said by many a capable scribe but coming out of Time magazine the indictment has legitimacy. 

There is also a certain universality to it - we have all encountered someone that can be described exactly the same way. Being teachable automatically elevates a person from mediocrity. They learn their way out of it. The quality of unteachable has to do with mental inertia and inability to recognize how far your limitations run. In that sense it is morally unacceptable to be unteachable.

Reading about it made me think about areas of my own life where I have and continued to act like "unteachable mediocrity" despite numerous options to get out of that state.
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