Re: Science and Unemployment...
Kevin Sterner (sterner@sel.hep.upenn.edu)
29 Jun 1995 15:03:41 GMT
In article <804385396snz@microser.demon.co.uk>, Ben Newsam <Ben@microser.demon.co.uk> writes:
> cas@ops1.bwi.wec.com "Bob Casanova" writes:
>
> > In article <804214549snz@microser.demon.co.uk> Ben Newsam
> > <Ben@microser.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > >From: Ben Newsam <Ben@microser.demon.co.uk>
> > >Subject: Re: Science and Unemployment...
> > >Date: Tue, 27 Jun 95 00:55:49 GMT
> >
> > >sterner@sel.hep.upenn.edu "Kevin Sterner" writes:
> >
> > >> Tell you what, maybe some advisors can come over from the advanced
> > >> economy of India, based as it is upon subsistence farming, guaranteed
> > >> jobs and handspun cotton, and show us a thing or two. Maybe then the
> > >> standard of living of the average American can be elevated to that of
> > >> the average Indian.
> >
> > >Well, maybe they could teach *you* a thing or two, at that.
> >
> > Such as?
>
> Humility.
(Aren't you the one who thinks that space is a figment of his imagination?
That's what I call hubris.)
What in the above passage shows a lack of humility? The fact is that the
vast majority of Indians are born to what we would call grinding poverty,
whereas the vast majority of Americans are born to prosperity. Is it
merely pride to believe that prosperity is a more desirable condition than
poverty? May I never be humble!
-- K.
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