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

[MB]

> Anna:)
> What are the first 2 warnings and then the first?

Anna, I do not understand what you are asking.

Regards,
MB


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> MB wrote:
> Below?
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> MB wrote:
> our asshole neighbors?
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> Anna questions?
> What exactly does that explain?
> Empathy realizes the objectivity of understanding and
> negotiations.
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> I don't see how the words empathy and asshole could make
> a really good equation?
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> Just Curious.
> Anna:)
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> 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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