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From: colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: emigrants
Message-ID: <890@ellie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 16:33:15 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 16:33:15 1986
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> > Laura Creighton writes:
> ....> >of the most intelligent people I know was also one of the lonliest. 
> > >But I still think that people at large are turned off by intelligence.
> In article <646@hounx.UUCP>, kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT) writes:
> > .......................................... Then look at the assassins:
> > political authorities, religious authorities, fanatics and terrorists.
> > Face it, this planet is a very dangerous place for bright people.
> > The nose punchers are everywhere.
In article <1042@vrdxhq.UUCP>, mws@vrdxhq.UUCP (Mike Stalnaker) writes:
> 	Hmmmm.. I wonder if Robert Heinlein and a few others in the 
> Science Fiction community are right: They claim that when a race begins to
> migrate over great distances, primarily the smarter, more survivable types
> migrate. A case in point: the first people to migrate from Europe to this 
> country in non-government sponsored groups were basically fed up with most
> of what their world/governments were doing, but rather than sitting around
> and whining about it, they got up, went out, and did something about it. 

More often they were fed up with going hungry.  Agriculture has come a
long way since then, but starvation always bats last.  What emigration
takes is not intelligence but initiative.

The world is quite a safe place for intelligent people, unless they
talk too much.  When your "intelligent" observations disturb those in
power, you're behaving foolishly.  During a time of unusually bad misrule
in China, a famous sage (I have forgotten who) avoided notice by passing
as an idiot.

Intelligence, other things being equal, is a turn-on.  Pride, whether
of birth, of purse, or of knowledge, is a turn-off.

	"This rock, for example, has an I.Q. of zero.  Ouch!"
	"What's the matter, Professor?"
	"It bit me!"
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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