Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site umich.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!mb2c!uofm-cv!umich!paul From: paul@umich.UUCP Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: RE: Re: Mensa and elitism Message-ID: <139@umich.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 01:07:43 EST Article-I.D.: umich.139 Posted: Fri Jan 11 01:07:43 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 05:35:27 EST References: <170@ttidcc.UUCP> Organization: University of Michigan, EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 17 This mensa thing brings to mind the line 'people join clubs for the same reason they used to carry them' Also, let's not confuse exclusivity and elitism. mensa may arguably be exclusize, but elite? Also, there are 90 pound weaklings on football teams if they are 90 pound weaklings with guts. A football team in Michigan made it into the state championship game with a one-armed quarterback. Anyway, organizations like mensa (elks, kiwanis, masons) are formed (i would say) as a reaction to living in an egalitarian society, where people "not as smart/good as I am" somehow manage to rise in its ranks. Must be luck, hey? --paul