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From: paul@umich.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: RE: Re: Mensa and elitism
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Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 01:07:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 11 01:07:43 1985
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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