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The best of both worlds?

Submitted by ashaffer on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 12:59pm.
Antonia raised an interesting question in our class a few weeks ago (that I think orginally came from a question her sister asked her):

"Would you rather be pretty or smart?"

(which goes with an assumption that if you are pretty you will be content and in community, but if you are smart you will be discontent and ostracized.)

Something I sort of stumbled over in my paper on cyber-culture was the idea that information can really change things- like, if you are smart, you can get a good job, make money, and BECOME beautiful (plastic surgery, etc.) So, knowledge/information can allow you to kill two birds w/one stone.

Does knowledge lead to the best of both worlds?

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