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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (63524)	5/6/2005 6:00:04 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (2) of 74559

Elroy getting back to your excellent example of the spanish who got lazy a few centuries back. Some posters on pkarchive BBS are saying we need to give the asians all our menial labor and focus on things dealing with science and requiring great mental ability - now there are smart global finance people on that pkarchive BBS - and for them to tell me that america can give the chinese dumb sweatshop jobs while we keep the hard mental science research jobs really makes me question thier superior intellect - why do they feel chinese are too dumb to do that hard mental stuff and that amercians have not become mental midgets. Not only does this indirectly insult my friends like Jay Chen but it greatly oversimplifies complex problems and gives women who buy 600 dollar jeans in the US more credit than I feel they deserve. I think the recent reports show america has lost the science edge and the voters who put bush in only go further to prove what dummies most of us are - my friend from ga who has a GM monte carlo he just bought said he hopes they don't go out cause then who will service his warranty?? He is not concerned for the economy or his nation or the pensioners or markets - he is only concerned about his warranty - that is self serving efficient market participant no? If you look at the IQ of people, as a nation - what is the USA's median versus other countries? My sisters were never pushed to pick up a math or science book, they were pushed to win beauty pageants and cheerleading competitions - I understand in china it is not this way - they are taught from very young to be busy little mental bees. Not true? We have people here teaching thier kids its all about fashion and image is everything and 600 dollar jeans make you special and make you an individual - yet in china they all wear the party jumpsuit like borg and all that makes you special is if you can figure out something ahead of the other guy no? Another gross oversimplification? America's whole social structure seems to have shifted from being the best to being the laziest - we outsource everything while we live la vida loca - look at the bush daughters - they party til they puke - they don't read science journals every night. People use to watch star trek and do very hard math homework, now they seem to watch SURVIVOR and FRIENDS and go shopping instead of do homework - is the downfall so hard to imagine. I just saw a commercial on CNBC yesterday about getting kids involved in after school activities like plays and sports so they don't get on drugs. My sisters did beauty pageants, why doesn't the commercial say play more chess or do mental activities? This is a problem in this country - occupy your time with football or shopping or beauty pageants - not reading science journals or economic theory. I have seen a ton of teenagers get on drugs in my area - this is destroying my community - they are bored and don't have rewarding after school jobs and they are smoking pot and taking exstacy in great numbers. I try to get them interested in chess tournaments or reading the PKarchive BBS or SI to expand thier mind - but they think that is for losers and geeks. If I offer to take them shopping or to a football game - they get very excited - why do they have this impression - who taught them that only dork losers read journals and learn? American Media and marketing are destroying this country from the inside out - rotting the brains of our children I feel. People say we have to tighten the belt and let china have our manufacturing and we should do more mental things - I don't see how - the asian students I meet are like robots from an asimov wet dream, they started reading the IEEE and science journals at 8 - 10 years old while little johnny over here was supposed to give all his time to football and little suzie all her time to cheerleading. Is football and cheerleading big events for students in china during thier after school free time? I remember raul julia giving a speech about an old mexican tale where the elite in society didn't want to do hard work - so they taught the monkeys in the jungle to do thier work, then thinking began to be too much time for them too, so they taught the monkeys to do their thinking, then one day you couldn't tell the monkeys from the people. Why is this so hard for people to get when reading about what happend with spain and other cultures that got too lazy to be self reliant?

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