10-25-2017, 02:55 AM
(10-25-2017, 01:59 AM)Galen Wrote:(10-24-2017, 01:47 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: [quote pid='29779' dateline='1508829194']
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You must have met too many Fundamentalist Christians. They may not be bad people, but they are certainly gullible.
More like I spent too much time at PSU listening to air-headed professors who had a specialty that ended with the word 'studies'. Currently, I live in the People's Republic of Portland which means that there are large numbers of Boomer lefties around and they tend to be way more detached from reality. They can't even handle basic math which is probably one of the reasons they are broke and too stupid to realize it.
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Is "PSU" Penn State?
I am a liberal, and I would prefer that education be more rigorous and dedicated to essential knowledge instead of to arcane but vapid studies.
College professors seem to be detached from many realities (like manual labor and certain forms of mass low culture). On the other hand, who isn't detached from something?
Heck, I generally avoid blockbuster movies heavy on special effects and weak on writing.
Maybe you would be happier in the rural Midwest where the culture is sold at Wal*Mart (because the nearest Target is forty miles away), where most FM radio stations offer country music or religious programming, and where the economy relies heavily on dairies and slaughterhouses, and where one must leave town to get beyond the education available at a community college.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.