Posted on 09/29/2007 7:20:26 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine's brother
Diana West, syndicated colunist for The Washington Times, has written a booke entitled, The Death of the Grown-up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization. Hot Air has posted a two part interview of the author by Michelle Malkin. I believe that the interview is worthy of your attention and time and gives us all something to ponder.
Michell Malkin Part 1 Interview of Diana West about Death of of the Grown-Up
The Death of the Grown-Up, Part 2,
So by substitution, childish societies require some form of tyranny to survive. My point exactly. The Eloi were tyrannized by the very people who supposedly served them. Just as the overgrown children of our culture are -- and the rest of us with them -- by the paternal institutions created to afford them a perpetual childhood.
Good thread, kids!
Can’t argue that point!
LOL!!
Jerry Mander, I think, said that it takes the brain's "dream center" to process the CRT image, and that that interferes with vital REM sleep.
Adolescence is a very useful concept; however, the span of time from commencement to fulfillment is arbitrary. Simply put, it takes too long!!!
Ahem!
That one is a sweeper that I cannot let pass; there are many more of us that got on with life, trying to make a penny and get down the road.
Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" offered the free ticket that so many took for an easy ride through life.
Robert McNamara's betrayal of my generation with his and Johnson's cynical approach to Vietnam soured many also.
The one's you speak of are the perpetually noisy, indignant minority, always looking for an extension of their free ride ticket. They are not main stream.
> The Left is infantile. Its the adults on the Right who have to b*tch-slap it back to reality.
And by using the term, “b*tch-slap”, you have just proven the point that we have lost our maturity and sunk to the level described by Diana West.
What we have here is a situation where all the hippies who avoided the draft in the 60s by staying in liberal arts colleges studying nothing have now become the teachers and educators class in America and are instilling their PC and pinko values on our children, while those who served in the armed forces and became businessmen and professionals are now having their morals and values eroded by these same elitist educators and morally degenerate offal.
Careful what you wish for. In a decade, grandpas will be celebrated and adored because all the grandpas will be narcissistic baby boomers.
“Look at the way the world is moving — everything has to be quantified, even the people. The highest salaries go to those with the high level skill sets.”
Sorry, but the “quantity” of “most academic degrees” does not, on the job, automatically translate, in real-world terms, into the “quality” of higher level skill sets.
What the business world rewards most, in the long run, is quality and in terms of quality, innate skills acquired before college serve a person better than one with lesser skills before college and lots of “sheepskins”.
One who has developed critical thinking abilities before college can acquire through experience far more “skills”, and more quickly, than one who enters college without critical thinking abilities - because they are seldom developed in college anymore.
And, without critical thinking abilities one is less successful translating either prior experience or “book learning and theory” into newly encountered practical applications. In the end, and in the long run the greatest success will accrue to the one who possesses the greatest knowledge and intellectual assets, particularly how to think critically, upon reaching college age, whether or not they enter college.
With the exception of some courses in finance, and most courses in the “hard” sciences, particularly as relates to medicine and engineering, an American college education no longer teaches skills and continues to do a worse than ever-before job of teaching the most critical skill - critical thinking. Instead, far to much academic effort is put into teaching what to think and believe - the professors opinion.
I remember inwardly cheering at the word “crusade” and then wondering why he would back down on it. That’s when I realized how dangerous the pc culture had made our world.
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