Re: 7 years old Iranian genius

[aoliai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I know what you mean.  But who knows if the boy will accept to be always carried on his father's sholder?

and who knows how he will decide to use his capbilities?

That society is much much more alive than we think it is, while  looking at it from  such geographical/cultural distance

atefeh


At 02:08 PM 5/1/1999 -0500, you wrote:

>too bad the iranian boy 'genius" is spending all that brain power on

>memorizing --and interpreting --the Koran! There are Christian

>fundamentalist boys who are trained by their fanatical parents to do

>this with the bible, to preach sermons etc. Orthodox jewish boys are

>also  given major doses of religion at very young ages. I think such

>kids are victims of child abuse.  I saw that BBC report -- and when I

>saw that little boy carried around on the shoulders of grownup men, and

>fussed over and catered to -- I thought, this story is not going to have

>a happy end.

>

>What would karl marx say about this, i wonder?

>

<bold><italic>The foucaldien ethos  has already reached  his/her  eternal
 utopia in the "present".  No need for further move!

</italic></bold>