Re: acting ideally/cynically

Katherine Goff (Katherine_Goff who-is-at ceo.cudenver.edu)
Tue, 13 Jan 1998 08:46:16 -0700

diane writes:
> after some six years of graduate study, I think that academic success is
>absolutely correlational to one's social dysfunctionality: the greater the
>success, the more socially dysfunctional; or, the more socially
>dysfunctional, the more likely academic success.
>
>(before folks shriek; I'd say the same thing applies to any position of
>absolute power - government, for example: anyone who would *want* that
>type
>of power is already untrustworthy) -

Plato wrote about this problem in the Republic. Socrates' solution was to
identify the "golden man" (that part's easy, huh?) and force him to accept
the power to rule (and all the semi- and less precious types would accept
him with bowed heads.)

Power requires social interaction, how do you mean that the socially
dysfunctional fill the roles of power? Dysfunctional for whom? Defined as
. . .?

Kathie

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