Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Discussion about Mensa (flame) Message-ID: <992@opus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 03:19:56 EST Article-I.D.: opus.992 Posted: Wed Dec 19 03:19:56 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 01:27:10 EST References: <205@unc.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 12 > My personal belief is that the organization Mensa by its very nature > encourages elitism, but that doesn't mean it requires its members to > be elitist. Whether or not many or most of its members join the > organization for other reasons is irrelevant, and I don't presume to > judge them for their decisions. Of course, if you consider that one of the useful effects of Mensa might be to help its members deal with the misconception that a claim to high IQ is elitist, you've got an interesting paradox. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.