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Can America be "great" without great culture?
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(02-25-2019, 11:38 AM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: I have come to lower my expectations.  Now I hope to find material that is fairly good.  (Note the qualifier fairly).  

That is minimum level of quality for material worth passing on to future generations.

Really high quality is now reserved for the 1%, and even then, the best is still reserved for a small fraction of them.  I had the pleasure (?) of browsing in a very upscale car dealership about a year ago.  There was nothing so gauche as a price sticker anywhere, but I know enough about cars to be certain that nothing cost less than $250,000.  Was the quality there?  Absolutely!  Was it my quality to enjoy? Of course not -- unless being a voyeur can be considered enjoyment.
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RE: Can America be "great" without great culture? - by David Horn - 02-26-2019, 02:55 PM

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