Duran Duran's Simon LeBon: "Westeners should put recession into perspective."

OK! Magazine ^ | 1/27/13

[beaversmom]

I was playing that one...at Christmas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjQzJAKxTrE

along with this one...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN4Uu0OlmTg

I can’t help it. I like the tunes. :)

Don’t tell anyone...I think I got a teensy, weensy bit of lefty in me...shhh...

[beaversmom]

See my post #61 LOL :)

[Tanniker Smith]

Check out this three part series (Sorry about not coding the links.)

http://mrburkemath.blogspot.com/2008/05/trigonometry-jones-and-temple-of-duran.html

http://mrburkemath.blogspot.com/2008/06/trigonometry-jones-and-temple-of-duran.html

http://mrburkemath.blogspot.com/2008/06/trigonometry-jones-and-temple-of-duran_17.html

[Cronos]

he's correct. they have absolutely nothing but family, love

Family is important

[Cronos]

hey, another Neil Postman fan :)

This guys is correct that we need to remember that family is important

[Cronos]

Dallas :"tell that to the poor..."

Dallas -- those are criminals. More to the point, they are as much worshipers of mammon as rich folks who forget about church and head to the mall each sunday to worship.

All of what you said are useful as you use it. Some folks just buy the latest to have the latest.... and others steal to have the latest....

[the OlLine Rebel]

Not reading everything - the guy is basically right.

Except I doubt there’s lots of love and fun in Africa and India. They’re primitive and despotic and that tends to negate those qualities.

[oblomov]

In my view, poverty is a spiritual condition, and has only a tangential relationship to money.

Money is just one form of wealth. Having good friendships and loving familial relationships is another. Yet another is a talent- an ability to produce something that others value, whether that something is visual art, music, software applications, or a robust statistical model.

To paraphrase a Nietzsche quote: When it rains, the poor people sit around their flats, yell at one another, and make one another miserable. This is the true poverty of the poor.

To Le Bon’s point, of course the standard of living in India is lower. There are many reasons for this, not least the fact that property rights (including intellectual property rights) are much weaker than in the developed West.

I do agree with Le Bon that one should put a recession in perspective. This doesn’t excuse the bad policy decisions and hostility to success that are evidenced by the President and his administration.

[oblomov]

I also have enjoyed reading Postman. He is somewhat of a lefty, but not a doctrinaire one.

A similar writer, but one with greater depth (since he wrote about the culture at large, and not just media's relationship to culture), was Christopher Lasch.

Lasch's Women and the Common Life has been my guidebook for having a happy marriage. It isn't a how-to book or self-help book by any means- in fact, Lasch rejected the idea of the "therapeutic model". It's a perspective on how feminism failed women, and failed men, when it could have achieved social goals of lasting value. It's a meditation on how to honor and respect women without ensconsing them on pedastals nor relegating them to "second sex" status.

And Revolt of the Elites was prophetic. Lasch's concerns and fears have been realized, unfortunately.

[ClearCase_guy]

I have heard of Lasch, but have never read anything by him. Sounds like I should. Thanks.