[b]Malcolm Gladwell
The conventional explanation for Jewish success, of course, is that Jews come from a literate, intellectual culture. They are famously “the people of the book.” There is surely something to that. But it wasn’t just the children of rabbis who went to law school. It was the children of garment workers. And their critical advantage in climbing the professional ladder wasn’t the intellectual rigor you get from studying the Talmud. It was the practical intelligence and savvy you get from watching your father sell aprons on Hester Street.[/b]
Sounds more like memes than genes to me, Mr. Goatman.
You don’t manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.
First of course we have to manage to end the debate over what they are.
What does it say about a society that it devotes more care and patience to the selection of those who handle its money than of those who handle its children?
Okay, let’s manage to end that.
The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.
Feel free to steal anything you want of mine.
The real me isn’t the person I describe, no the real me is the me revealed by my actions.
Unless [of course] the whole point of that is to deceive.
Re-reading is much underrated. I’ve read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold once every five years since I was 15. I only started to understand it the third time.
For most of course it’s The Art Of the Deal.
You know, if that’s true.