To take the simplest level first, 'perfection' as a term is always relative. It is relative to a context, relative to standards set or recognized as relevant. It is also relative to expectations, and so to the dynamic and painful, contradictory and compelling, pattern of human relationships. A great deal of misdirected energy goes into perfecting other people, coupled with a **refusal to learn anything at all, let alone to be told
anything by anyone else**. This involves something tricky and even *treacherous*, which has a lot to do with perfectionism, fussiness and sheer bloody-mindedness. Such perfectionism, indeed, has given the very notion of perfection a bad name, making it static and tyrannical, and making the notion of perfectibility seem at best a fantasy myth in politics. No wonder, then, it is the prevailing fashion among right-wing thinkers to turn their noses against perfectibility; *though few miggers would have the courage to turn their noses directly against the Founding Fathers*, they will readily turn their noses against their ideas -- all in the name of being miggers. This has happened before. It happened in reference to Buddha. It happened in reference to Christ. It happened, to a lesser extent, in reference to earlier teachers like Krishna and later Teachers like Pythagoras. It certainly happened a great deal in reference to mike warner
