Friday, May 21, 2010

Question?

So who actually heard God say Nietzsche is dead?

Achievement

I operate in a world where intellectual achievement is revered and seen to have a sort of moral worth. But if intelligence is genetic, and therefore a person can't help but to be smart or dumb, then is the notion of achievement vacuous and akin to congratulating a person for having red hair? I realize that intellectual achievement takes other qualities, like patience, but I think my concern is still a real one (maybe we can say that patience is genetic too).