Wednesday 10 December 2008

short order cooks & the flipside of the American dream


This is about a story on exiledonline.com
A new book ("Outliers") has arrived on the scene to explain to Americans why they are not successful, because the successful Americans wouldn't be wasting their time reading that book.
This book is necessary because financial success is the meaning of 'the pursuit of happiness. Turns out that there's an excuse or two that are ready-to-use. All that decides your fate is when, where and to whom you're born, which explains Bush43. One other small issue is whether you have a horse-shoe up your butt, or not. Of course, your birth particulars could certainly help your luck.
This should also solve another perennial problem for Americans who think that most Europeans, with their 5-week annual vacations, are lazy lay-abouts who are only interested in their cafe lattes and sex. Now you know why, okay Joe? Still confused? Read paragraph two (above) again, particularly the "All that matters..." part. It took Americans 232 years of 'liberty' to discover what Europeans have known all along. "Look after number one (yourself) or else you'll fall on number two (feces)".
All men are created equal, but most US men are unwilling to accept that. And that's why American governments have let schools, healthcare, human rights and workers' rights laws, and infrastructure to rot. Each American thinks that he's going to be the next self-made millionaire, and so, big government reminds him of communism.
There's one theory in the book that I have a problem with; the reason for the math abilities of East Asians. It probably has less to do with generations of detail work and toil, and more to do with the complexity of their languages and how they're used. checkitout!
goto: http://exiledonline.com/book-review-outliers-the-story-of-success-and-why-youre-not-having-any/