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To: Bug
My link in #5 is incorrect. Here's the correct one.

Capitalism for Kids

6 posted on 09/09/2001 7:44:27 AM PDT by independentmind
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To: independentmind; Bug; Askel5
Well, it's horrifying. It really is.

And it's too simple to just "blame the parents." I don't know about you, but I'm starting to get very suspicious of that whole line of argumentation. Witness the Supreme Court's recent ruling on Internet porn: "it's up to the parents."

To me, that's sort of like telling the family living next to a toxic waste dump that getting good oxygen into their children's lungs is "up to the parents."

And oddly enough, when I think about these things I find myself more sympathetic to the Muslim world. Some conservatives don't believe in "society" as an agent of power affecting behavior, but I do. Ideologies, for lack of a better word, like Modernism, Corporatism, Islamism, Materialism have a way of insinuating themselves into the semiotic fabric of our daily lives. They become givens. At that point, it is so much harder for the individual parent, child, or man in the Islamic street to escape their power.

People tend naturally to accept the world they were born into.

7 posted on 11/29/2001 9:01:20 AM PST by cicero's_son
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