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Old 08-19-2008, 02:54 PM   #100
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I've always found it interesting how we tend to attach these value judgments to personal characteristics like "ability to learn" or "hard work" (and I include myself in that). I think the typical tendency in the US is to attach more value to "hard work" than any innate talent, though people can be and often are jealous of innate talent. Perhaps they are both worthy of respect.

There's a short story by Kurt Vonnegut that I read years ago and found a copy of again just recently: http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html It's kind of depressing, in a way, because it's all too easy to imagine things going in this direction.
That was a great movie, too!

Um anyone see DixieChick around here? How about the Pandorg King?
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