From: Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin (warrl@blarg.net)
Date: Sun Nov 30 1997 - 22:46:06 MST
> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 21:01:57 +0100
> From: Max M <maxm@maxmcorp.dk>
> To: extropians@extropy.com
> Subject: Re: SOC: Confucian Capitalism and the Tao of Extropy
> Reply-to: extropians@extropy.com
> GBurch1@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > We should be on the lookout for personal bridges into the Chinese
> > cultural world. A few billion humans are both a great resource
> > for and a great threat to our future.
>
> A good point, but the problem also exist already now in the middle
> east.
>
> The patriarchal pyramid of the Confucianism (and even earlier in the
> middle age here in Europe) is also expressed in Egypt with the
> recent massacre of tourists. The Muslim millits who did the killing
> consists mostly of well educated young men who hasn't been able to
> find a job after finishing their education. They where not at the
> right level of the patriarchal pyramid. Other more well connected
> members of society gets the awailable jobs.
A few years ago I read that any Egyptian who graduated from
college was guaranteed a government job -- even if he didn't want
one.
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