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Robert Tatman wrote:
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Brian Redman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <snip>
> > The true nature of revolution is revealed in a recent book by
> > Frank J. Sulloway, "Born To Rebel." (New York: Random House,
> > 1996. ISBN: 0-679-44232-4.) Sulloway argues that
> > rebelliousness is statistically discernable by Darwinian niche.
> <snip>
> > Statistical evidence that the true revolutionaries tend to be the
> > later borns; that the first-borns tend to identify with
> > authority.
> <snip>
>
> With all due respect, this is so much hogwash. I have Sulloway's book; I've
> read part of it, but didn't finish it. I am a first-born. My wife is a
> first-born. In each of our families, we were the rebels, the ones who resisted
> the established order; it was our younger siblings who succeeded academically
> and moved into positions of authority in society. "Success," as the world
> measures success, has been a long time coming for us...but we have accumulated
> lots of scars in the struggle against the Oligarchy and its minions.
>
> Bob
>
I also question the first born/later born theory. In my family I am
the oldest of three males. In terms of "radicalness" I would say that my
youngest brother is most radical, my younger brother least, and I am
some where in the middle closest to my youngest brother. In some ways,
though, I may be more radical then he.
best wishes, Howard Davis
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