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or vicious manner, depending on the psychology of the individual in question. Almost every human being, genius or no, avoids certain types of people, the types varuing with the tastes of the individual in question. There's always a reason for aloofness; sometimes it is a feeling of inferiority; sometimes the individual remains aloof, because contact with the people around him in a given circumstance is unsatisfactory. Put him in with the right kind of people, and he'll get along just fine.
So far is the high tension thinger goes -- he probably been overrated. His ability is something rightfully perhaps to be admired. But too often, the product is inferior to that of the low-tension thinker -- because no matter how fine a thinkning machine you have, if it is fed falsities, misconceptions, prejudices, lies, metaphysics, etc. and some correct facts and figures, the product will be high tension dung. Or if he is fed straight facts and figures, but hasn't a thorough comprehension of human behaviour, and human reactions, then your product will be super-streamlined, chromium-plated, dung de luxe.
It is a trait of human behaviour to expect either too much from, or give too much leeway to, genius. Joe Blow is a music genuis; at the age of two, he played the south end of the piano in the four-hands arrangement of "Le Sacre du Printemps"; tagged as a genius, great things were expected of him in almost everything; or John Doe, the artistic genius who never learned to become a responsible human being, because everybody said; But he's a genius! and let him get away with murder.
To get back to Superman: my opinion is -- there may be one or more alive today. But unless they blow their tops, we'll never know!

Lovecraft Bibliography   A fine job. Incidentally, for the sake of those who don't know (although primarily for the sake of blowing my horn a bit!) the time, methinks has come to confess. I'm Carol Grey --  vide "The Leapers" and "Passage to Sharanee". You may fire when ready, gentlemen.

Phanny - V2#3    Technological davancement has eliminated the necessity of slave labor only in the academic sense. That is: were we living in a scientifically operating society, then this would be true. But it isn't, because we aren't. Our economic system is based firmly upon the foundation of wage-slavery, as that of old Greece was builded upon out-and-out slavery. The laws of the economy under which we exist demand this semi-slavery; without it, without the great mass of labor, just across the line from poverty and destitution, our economic system would crash like Wall Street, 1929. Of equal importance is a permanent (though constatn turnover in personnell is ok) army of unemployed, as barrier against the demands of trade unions. For, whether anyone lies it or not, the very existence of trade unions is subversive and dangerous to the capitalist economic system. I do not refer to such unions as exist in name only, which are no more than debating societes and safety valves, but those which are trade unions within the various industries. And if there's one thing upon which reactionary, liberal, and radical agree (in deed, if not in word) it is that the day is coming when this nation will have to choose between its economic system (as is) and the welfare of the great majority of the people who inhabit it.

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*********************************************************** Agenbite of Inwit -- Spring, 1944 -- Page Six *********************************************************** or vicious manner, depending on the psychology of the individual in question. Almost every human being, genius or no, avoids certain types of people, the types varuing with the tastes of the individual in question. There's always a reason for aloofness; sometimes it is a feeling of inferiority; sometimes the individual remains aloof, because contact with the people around him in a given circumstance is unsatisfactory. Put him in with the right kind of people, and he'll get along just fine. So far is the high tension thinger goes -- he probably been overrated. His ability is something rightfully perhaps to be admired. But too often, the product is inferior to that of the low-tension thinker -- because no matter how fine a thinkning machine you have, if it is fed falsities, misconceptions, prejudices, lies, metaphysics, etc. and some correct facts and figures, the product will be high tension dung. Or if he is fed straight facts and figures, but hasn't a thorough comprehension of human behaviour, and human reactions, then your product will be super-streamlined, chromium-plated, dung de luxe. It is a trait of human behaviour to expect either too much from, or give too much leeway to, genius. Joe Blow is a music genuis; at the age of two, he played the south end of the piano in the four-hands arrangement of "Le Sacre du Printemps"; tagged as a genius, great things were expected of him in almost everything; or John Doe, the artistic genius who never learned to become a responsible human being, because everybody said; But he's a genius! and let him get away with murder. To get back to Superman: my opinion is -- there may be one or more alive today. But unless they blow their tops, we'll never know! Lovecraft Bibliography A fine job. Incidentally, for the sake of those who don't know (although primarily for the sake of blowing my horn a bit!) the time, methinks has come to confess. I'm Carol Grey -- vide "The Leapers" and "Passage to Sharanee". You may fire when ready, gentlemen. Phanny - V2#3 Technological davancement has eliminated the necessity of slave labor only in the academic sense. That is: were we living in a scientifically operating society, then this would be true. But it isn't, because we aren't. Our economic system is based firmly upon the foundation of wage-slavery, as that of old Greece was builded upon out-and-out slavery. The laws of the economy under which we exist demand this semi-slavery; without it, without the great mass of labor, just across the line from poverty and destitution, our economic system would crash like Wall Street, 1929. Of equal importance is a permanent (though constatn turnover in personnell is ok) army of unemployed, as barrier against the demands of trade unions. For, whether anyone lies it or not, the very existence of trade unions is subversive and dangerous to the capitalist economic system. I do not refer to such unions as exist in name only, which are no more than debating societes and safety valves, but those which are trade unions within the various industries. And if there's one thing upon which reactionary, liberal, and radical agree (in deed, if not in word) it is that the day is coming when this nation will have to choose between its economic system (as is) and the welfare of the great majority of the people who inhabit it.