Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 21:00:54 +0000, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>
> > On 15/01/2014 08:58 AM, scott wrote:
> >> The problem is, and it's the same in the UK, it's "cool" to be dumb, or
> >> at least appear to be dumb.
> >
> > This seems to be pretty much the root of it all.
> >
> > You know, there *was* a time when great mathematicians, engineers,
> > scientists and so forth were like revered deities. What the heck
> > happened??
>
> Everybody became a winner.  At least that's part of it.  If being smart
> were important, then an inability to apply one's knowledge wouldn't be
> regarded as "still worthy of a trophy of participation".
>
> It's more complicated than that, but at least here in the US, this idea
> that everyone's a winner and nobody ever fails is a dangerous, dangerous
> precedent.
>
> Jim
> --

Everyone is a winner and liked on fakebook for it

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