The interesting thing with this is how progressives usually wield science like a bludgeon. The concept of “luck” is a much more dominant point with progressives than they often times let on. They do boil over the fact that one person born in The U.S. to a wealthy family is much more “lucky” than someone born in another country to a poor family.
Yet put luck in a cup. Can you measure it? Is it two millimeters? Is it a half-liter? Is it two gallons of luck? Is it more dense than balsa wood or less dense than uranium? Does luck therefore float? Can you melt it with acid? Etc etc etc.
Science is nothing but a weapon(like everything else) for progressives. The ends justify the means.
Some old thoughts on “luck”:
http://progressingamerica.blogspot.com/2012/03/examining-john-rawls-from-totalitarian.html
http://progressingamerica.blogspot.com/2012/07/luck-totalitarianism-and-accidents-of.html
I don’t know who originated the saying that “luck is where preparation meets opportunity,” but there is a lot of truth to it. There is also a lot of truth to Branch Rickey’s oft-quoted statement that “luck is the residue of design.”
In some ways, a person born in The U.S. to a poor family is much more “lucky” than someone born in another country to a wealthy family.
Our poor people have more "stuff" and more living space than the middle class of Europe (on average and in general.) Yet the elites in our country train our poor to believe they're victims.
And they are, to a degree -- victims of the very elites who oppress them by pretending to care for them.
This one is another “classic” out of Princeton in the last few days... what a disaster —
— you’d have thought that Woodrow Wilson was the worst it’d ever have come up with, but no, here we go from Princeton that the “Classics” exclude Latin and Greek and now that talent is racist.
What a sweet pudding is that little orange and black tiger.