I read books and write about them a lot. Joshua is a plumber. Joshua and I go to a literature seminar together. He cannot contribute, and I can. Joshua and I go to a house in which water is spewing from cracks in every available pop. Joshua can contribute, I cannot.
Neither of us is inherently better than the other - it depends on the context. The idea of the 'inherently better' person simply does not work on a skills-based level. To look at Peter Hitchens again (for I despise him), and to use a deliberately morally dubious example ... he no doubt considers the lowest echelons of my old comprehensive school to be just the sort of losers the 'system' attempts to elevate at the cost of lowering the horizons of, say, people in my peer group. But if I were in a fist fight, I'd rather have Gareth Kingscott with me than I would Peter Hitchens.
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Date: 2004-12-08 09:34 am (UTC)Neither of us is inherently better than the other - it depends on the context. The idea of the 'inherently better' person simply does not work on a skills-based level. To look at Peter Hitchens again (for I despise him), and to use a deliberately morally dubious example ... he no doubt considers the lowest echelons of my old comprehensive school to be just the sort of losers the 'system' attempts to elevate at the cost of lowering the horizons of, say, people in my peer group. But if I were in a fist fight, I'd rather have Gareth Kingscott with me than I would Peter Hitchens.