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Plenum, issue 2, July 1946
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PLENUM Page Nine CRUD Taking up again the task of boosting the egos of other FAP's by discussing their crud of the previous mailing........ THE FANTASY AMATEUR: It would be useful to some of us if the entire constitution including all amendments up to date were to be published in a separate booklet. I've completely lost track of things as it is. SUSTAINING PROGRAM: The cartoon of the GI's in Tokio singing an Accolade to Gernsback hit me in the funny bone. Re Speer's remarks on Chauvenet's statements on the moronity of the average man: When, as in the army, you live closely with a bunch of average men, you get a pretty good idea of what they are like. My total impression wasn't too good. The average guy is a "nice guy" to drink with --- but not very satisfactory to talk with if your culture has advanced very far above the stage of Street & Smith's Western Stories. However, what else can you expect when you look at the environment these people are raised in? For further discussion see the preceding article on semantics. Re Ethical Equations: It's fairly simple to analyze why nothing happened to me in light of cause and effect. I got into Ordnance first of all because I had been working for Ordnance as a civilian. When the ASTP came along, it was designed expressly for a guy like me, and that kept me in the States for another year. A slight element of "luck" entered into the fact that most ASTP men landed in the infantry and artillery, while electrical engineer majors went to the signal corps. Necessity for further training kept me in the States for another year, and my eyesight continued to keep me out of the infantry. Und so weiter..... The fact that i became an electrical engineer is one that might be attributed to "chance" inasmuch as I had nothing to do with it. I had applied to study physics, but I don't think they were giving that course, and somebody up top assigned me to electrical engineering. They may have had obscure logical reasons, also. It's interesting to note how events-resulting-from-causes may come together in fortunate juxtapositions to give an over-all effect which you call "luck." For example: I entered the army at a certain time due to various reasons, which turned out to be just the right time to get in at the beginning of the ASTP. The important question, which has not really been consid-
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PLENUM Page Nine CRUD Taking up again the task of boosting the egos of other FAP's by discussing their crud of the previous mailing........ THE FANTASY AMATEUR: It would be useful to some of us if the entire constitution including all amendments up to date were to be published in a separate booklet. I've completely lost track of things as it is. SUSTAINING PROGRAM: The cartoon of the GI's in Tokio singing an Accolade to Gernsback hit me in the funny bone. Re Speer's remarks on Chauvenet's statements on the moronity of the average man: When, as in the army, you live closely with a bunch of average men, you get a pretty good idea of what they are like. My total impression wasn't too good. The average guy is a "nice guy" to drink with --- but not very satisfactory to talk with if your culture has advanced very far above the stage of Street & Smith's Western Stories. However, what else can you expect when you look at the environment these people are raised in? For further discussion see the preceding article on semantics. Re Ethical Equations: It's fairly simple to analyze why nothing happened to me in light of cause and effect. I got into Ordnance first of all because I had been working for Ordnance as a civilian. When the ASTP came along, it was designed expressly for a guy like me, and that kept me in the States for another year. A slight element of "luck" entered into the fact that most ASTP men landed in the infantry and artillery, while electrical engineer majors went to the signal corps. Necessity for further training kept me in the States for another year, and my eyesight continued to keep me out of the infantry. Und so weiter..... The fact that i became an electrical engineer is one that might be attributed to "chance" inasmuch as I had nothing to do with it. I had applied to study physics, but I don't think they were giving that course, and somebody up top assigned me to electrical engineering. They may have had obscure logical reasons, also. It's interesting to note how events-resulting-from-causes may come together in fortunate juxtapositions to give an over-all effect which you call "luck." For example: I entered the army at a certain time due to various reasons, which turned out to be just the right time to get in at the beginning of the ASTP. The important question, which has not really been consid-
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