Re: Caste

From: donald_at_eznR_x8s-zVCZbbYrePCjmckUFVBkx7Dw0UeU0Ru6_pUxjcULxqL4MJn6uqgctJTmQN6y
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:54:01 GMT

In message <b22cfc220907061652p5611ec41q3b7af89a9c7563f0_at_0R7N1CVtxfkfDXaDSm_Ne6wglfVnK0FItIDheUv8aM2lAcIGngTYrhAGfqedzgZg9soeXa2YDuB0_D8xcTEdFcrHzdga3sS805noh1lL7GCvaLybPGaJkqnrCkffIzRxgggbcQk.yahoo.invalid> Todd Gardiner writes:
>On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:52 PM, <donald_at_hvMCYyzh2MyAXT7jsUisTugbxz40Pud9XenKblG1JmdzDJFCJOcJAgqo6ZrALE5T1xcugin82-cN1GsHwcbnalrG.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> The designer is probably a wizard while a carpenter follows the
>> wizard's instructions to actually build it. The mathmatics involved
>> in the design will be beyond most members of the other castes.

>Not all siege weaponry requires knowledge of mathematics, such as
>siege towers or battering rams.

How high do you build your siege tower? Without climbing the wall to measure it?

OK battering rams don't require mathmatics.

> Although quibbling about this goes against my point. I was reaching
>for examples of tasks that *might* be defined as different castes
>from group to group.

I see lots of tasks being split in different ways to the way we would split the same task today. Caste boundaries being one of the reasons.

-- 
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/