To: MikeH who wrote (5490 ) 1/18/2000 11:58:00 AM From: GUSTAVE JAEGER Respond to
Mike,rationalize people's achievements in their careers are touching but then again, it basically comes down to what I told you in a previous post: America's egalitarian mythology. You Americans just can't accept the reign of the Arbitrary --hence your relentless social engineering to explain why Joe is blue-collar and why Sam is a Wall Street whizz kid.... Of course, as a politically correct US citizen, you'll favor a social theory that ultimately rests on the Individual's talents and shortcomings --there's no way for you to acknowledge any class-aware analysis. With such a simplistic perspective, you can squeeze in every collective issue into an individualized matrix: if ten white people are successful while ten other black people --with basically the same skills-- are on relief, you're not gonna develop some subversive, socialist , statistical rationale about it. Instead, you'll break down the picture into 20 different, individual stories which all illustrate the American Judeo-Christian mythology: A, B, C,... H, I, J were all unsuccessful? Well, the reason's crystal-clear! A was lazy, B was not smart enough, C had a floosie wife, D was not "mobile", E had the wrong skills, F is a sociopath, G was awfully shy.... Err... what did you say? They are all black??!? Really?Women will enjoy equality of opportunity with men the day a female numskull will be hired instead of a qualified man .Ecole Polytechnique de Zurich ....
