My high school boyfriend and current bridge partner is a genius. Quantifiably so.... He's a senior scientist at Berkeley labs, Ph.D. in physics & when we were in school he was the one who could ace any math or science test without doing homework.
He's also convinced that unions are a major threat to education, that competition breeds excellence, that society is divided into winners and losers, and that socialism is the tyranny of the losers. Now Carrol says that this man bears no responsibility for his opinions, that his opinions are a matter of capitalist relations. But I can't shake the notion that he is responsible, and his general attitude toward mankind makes me want to vomit. But perhaps, I am equally guilty: though I refuse to become his mistress; I continue to play bridge with him because a good bridge partner is hard to find. Joanna ----- Original Message ----- me: >>> in other words, they aren't charlatans >>> as much as ideologues. Sabri Oncu wrote: >> Neither. They are just unquestioning believers, most of whom with well >> intentions. >> >> I know many of them. Many of them are my friends, some are good friends. As I understand the common use of the word, being an ideologue is not a character flaw. An ideologue can have good intentions. Most do. (I also know many of them, having some as good friends.) -- Jim Devine / "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." -- Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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