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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (46472)7/23/1999 8:30:00 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
no matter who their daddies were.

. . some feckless dilettante flying his toy . .

. . money and fame wouldn't exempt him . .

I can respect celebrities who earned their fame by their own
achievements. But I don't see anything so special those who got famous
because of their parents, or because of who they married.

Permit me to say you seem to be have a lot of resentment toward those born to privilege.

Seems to me privilege is a relative thing. To a barefoot uneducated peasant in some hot, dusty third world village those of us who can sit in a soft chair in an air-conditioned room and amuse ourselves with a computer might seem to be spoiled dilettantes. Sure we earned the money that bought these things and didn't just inherit them, yet would we have ever been able to earn them if we hadn't been born in an environment which offered us relatively rich educational and economic opportunities? The odds would be against it.

Personally I can't feel any anger or resentment toward JFK Jr. regardless of how much wealth he inherited. Ditto for the Bush family, Quayle family, Forbes, and etc. My wise grandmother taught me one shouldn't judge people by the circumstances of their birth - and that goes for things like race and ethnicity as well as for things like family wealth or poverty.

Bruce
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