Lem

[Kat Tancock]

I think the bottom line here is something we can all see, and that is that
it was the character of those who came to North America to settle that
shaped the character of today's North Americans. Intellectualism wouldn't
have helped the earliest pioneers much (not that hitting a ball with a stick
would have been much more useful :). They had other skills that were more
useful.

The same principle can be applied to the (general) differences between
Americans and Canadians - those who declared independence from Britain were
a different bunch from the Loyalists who came north to Canada.

Not that this is my specialty, by any means, but in general terms it
explains a lot.

> Persons hitting a ball with a stick and persons throwing a ball into a
> basket earn hundreds and even thousands times more than  persons who teach
> at school or university (Nobel Prize winners including).

Not that I don't agree with you, but one could also say that it is a strange
phenomenon that sitting in an office studying "useless" things (such as
Russian literature) and propagating these ideas to students makes more money
than growing food, building homes or any other trades.

Have a good weekend,

Kat

_________

And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we
who never let each other sleep above it.

            - Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, 1915

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