> > -----Original Message----- > From: Edmund Storms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 2:10 PM > To: vortex-l@eskimo.com > Subject: Re: [Vo]: OT: Poetic "N" Justice > > As usual, the debate about which race is smarter misses the important > issue. The so called "smarts" of humans is made of different features. > Some people are smart at music, others are good at math, some are poor > spellers but can write well. In other words, we each have many ways we > are smart and dumb at the same time. Each race was genetically created > under different conditions. These conditions generated the obvious > characteristics, but they also caused the race, on average, to be smart > in different ways from the other races. As a result, each race had the > kind of talent needed to survive in its own birthing environment. When a > person moves from this environment into a different one, the smarts that > were useful may no longer apply. As a result, the person may not look as > "smart" to other people in the new environment. Fortunately, we all can > learn and can make up for some of this basic deficiency. The situation > says nothing about which race is superior. It means only that all races > were superior in the environment that created them. We, as individuals, > only have to make the best of this situation when our environment > changes. We can see the consequence of this effect in the US at the > present time, when a significant number of people support obviously bad > policy for really dumb reasons. It would be interesting to know where > and why these genes were created. > > Ed >
Ed wrote: < It would be interesting to know where and why these genes were created > Capitalism tends to favour genes which are good at making money. Harry
