Posted on 08/09/2013 11:28:11 AM PDT by GraceG
There is one main criteria on which to judge a culture and it is very simple:
Any culture in which the older generation doesn't push the younger generation to better themselves intellectually and pushes them to suceeed more than themselves is by defintion a degenerate culture.
That is all, simple effective and infuriating to all liberals and their PC bullshit crap.
thoughts?
Agree with your assertion. By definition, a culture that isn’t improving is either declining or static. The rub comes in the definition of “improving.” There’s no universal standard for the word and to measure it strictly in material terms is to solicit argument from the spiritual (and anti-materialstic) communities. So I think you’ve oversimplified somewhat.
And “criteria” is a plural noun — requires a plural verb. The singular is “criterion.”
RE: ‘criteria’. How about literacy?
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