[extropy-chat] FWD [fantasticreality] Nice Summary of Problems of the self-denoted "Cultural Elites"

[spike]

> > Anna:)
> > What are the first 2 warnings and then the first?
> 
> Anna, I do not understand what you are asking. MB


MB wrote this earlier:

>> have read The Bell Curve and wanted to mention that now I see two 
>> warnings where I had before seen one...

Then Anna asked:

> > What are the first 2 warnings and then the first?

Then I wrote:  Ja, MB, I wondered about that too, but was too busy changing
diapers to worry about it.  {8^D  

spike





> 
> 
> >
> > MB wrote:
> > Below?
> >
> > MB wrote:
> > our asshole neighbors?
> >
> > Anna questions?
> > What exactly does that explain?
> > Empathy realizes the objectivity of understanding and
> > negotiations.
> >
> > I don't see how the words empathy and asshole could make
> > a really good equation?
> >
> > Just Curious.
> > Anna:)
> >
> >
> >
> > On 7/20/06, MB <mbb386 at main.nc.us> wrote:
> >> I also have asshole neighbors and I prefer many of my online friends.
> :) The
> >> danger
> >> lies in taking things to an extreme, which you also warn about in your
> post.
> >>
> >> I've not read the book on Elites referenced in the original post, only
> the
> >> summarizing post, so I cannot speak to it directly. But I have read The
> Bell
> >> Curve
> >> and wanted to mention that now I see two warnings where I had before
> seen
> >> one.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> MB
> >>
> >> > Is the author saying that I should feel more empathy for my asshole
> >> > neighbor upstairs than for my friends on this list, just because we
> >> > live close?
> >> > Come on, I consider decoupling relationships from geography as one of
> >> > the great achievements of our time. Sure everything has a downside
> but
> >> > let's not throw the baby with the water.
> >> > G.
> >> >
> >> > On 7/20/06, MB <mbb386 at main.nc.us> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Much of this commentary mirrors well the conclusions reached in "The
> Bell
> >> Curve".
> >> >> The last few chapters of that book were serious questions about the
> >> direction our
> >> >> country was going, and questioned how to avoid what is described
> below.
> >> >>
> >>
> >>
> 
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