[pkok]

Gauging culture in America is like measuring the depth of warpaint on a whore; it is all superficial, a mask as likely to flake and fall off with the morning sun or the first hard rain as to remain until the last trick is turned.

You sir, are mad. Do you now, or have you in the past, actually uttered such a blathering inanity to one or more students? It would have to be the silvery hair or the melodious voice, because the message is nonsensical at best. Do you acknowledge yourself a nihilist? Or, are you merely in love with your own superior ego, and pay no attention to whatever tripe trips off your tongue...

[Old Professer]

You, like many (especially in your pique) assume automatically that culture is a positive attribute; the key to understanding culture is to realize that it deveops over time and amounts to its sum only through persistence and knowable only upon future examination.

America is, and has always been, a work in progress.