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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: XSO IQ
Message-ID: <502@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 13:25:43 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 25 13:25:43 1985
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Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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Summary: 

In article <1560093@acf4.UUCP> mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) writes:
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>Plumbers pay scales may be higher because most people (except hackers :-)
>consider cleanliness and basic bodily functions before they do education.

This sounds reasonable.  When the toilet backs up you want it fixed  _now_.
The  benefits of universal education, on the other hand, are very long-term
even though the taxes that pay for it are immediate.  It's  sad  that  most
people can't seem to see the connection.

>One of the reasons for the anti-intellectual climate may be political, i.e.,
>it would seem that the majority of intellectuals are significantly to the
>left of most Americans.

I think this is more perception than fact.  A friend with a graduate degree
in  Political  Science  once told me that the intellectuals are usually the
first to be executed in a revolution because they're capable of seeing  all
sides  of  an issue.  When the political climate of the country has shifted
to general conservatism this ability to see both sides of the issues  would
make the intellectual community appear liberal by comparison.  In reality I
detect no shortage  of  intellectual  conservatives  (except,  perhaps,  on
Capitol Hill (-: ).
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