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Subject: Re: re:Intelligence
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Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 10:01:00 EDT
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/* Written 10:57 am  Jun 18, 1985 by sommers@topaz in ISM780:net.singles */

<I have been sort of mildly following this discussion and I am getting a
<little bit pissed off at the technocratic elitism I am seeing (mind you,
<I HAVE NOT read every article in the discussion - I must work sometimes.)

<The world is not black and white, jocks and nerds, good and bad. Hacking
<C is not a requirement for entering heaven.  Jocks are not always stupid
<and nerds are not always too fat or too skinny or completely clumsy.

<I am tired of this whining.

I agree with Liz.  I noticed that a lot of the people on this net are
complaining about being "outcasted nerds" in high school, yet turning around
and giving the "sterotype view of a jock".  It was as much an honor in our
high school to be an intellect as it was a jock.  Many of our athletes were
members of the Honor Society.

Everyone has a particular skill or talent, whether it is an intellectual skill
or a physical one.  Working with computers is not for everyone, but then that
doesn't make programmers an elite class.  There are many jobs out there that
programmers can't handle (farming, plumbing, etc.) without the proper
training.