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To: Vaduz
The work "ethic" of any individual involves a complex of personality traits, interacting with the social values in that segment of the population, with which the individual identifies. But no amount of hard work can overcome all inherent weaknesses.

The very hand-wringing over inequality is itself a bit of an aberration. In other forms of sentient & social life forms, there is general acceptance of a pecking order--in some instances it may be challenged at mating time, but that is a special instance. So too, throughout most of human history, there is that same acceptance.

The frenetic embrace of egalitarian projects generally flows not from those supposedly disadvantaged by traditional society, but those in the most affluent classes, who have too much leisure time. Thus the French Revolution embraced demagoguery that flowed from the salons of the debauched party set in Louis XV's France; thus Aristocrats in costume helped to lead the march on the Bastille.

The manufacturing of supposed "grievances," by which the many are corrupted, is as old as the version in Genesis, which led astray but two. It is an endlessly repeated call upon the baser human instincts; but it is not a rational argument for change. (See Variations On A Demonic Theme.)

William Flax

9 posted on 05/14/2014 10:57:04 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Ohioan

But no amount of hard work can overcome all inherent weaknesses.
Better not tell AA members that as well as people who over came all odds.


15 posted on 05/15/2014 8:18:35 AM PDT by Vaduz
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