Originally posted by Teinosuke"On values, the point is that they are values determined by others, as opposed to the values of the users.
[b]On public education. In 1961, graduation was like release from prison. In 1986, going to college was a joy, well worth what I paid for it.
If I'd had to pay for my university education in the late 1990s, as British students do these days, I'm sure that I'd have thought it well worth it. But I don't think I studied any less hard because it was f ...[text shortened]... nd not. Another way in which state intervention helps people to live orderly, law-abiding lives.[/b]
So what?"
You accept as a given that some elites should be definers of what is of value? Who?
It was during my first semester in CC in 1986, that I asked one of my instructors, who also happened to be a regent at the school, why the youngster did relatively poorly compared to the adults.
His answer was simply, who pays for their classes?
"The subway is a lot cheaper in Kiev or Minsk than it is in New York, and you don't see people jumping the turnstiles in those cities. I wonder why?"
Nominally cheaper, or cheaper relative to average income? In either case, I would hazard a guess that fear of police is a strong reason why.
Originally posted by JS357What would you think of the House passing each funding item individually? No omnibus bills. The Senate would approve, the President sign or veto. the House would prioritize the spending. Wouldn't this eliminate the "horse trading" and passing of bad laws, and attached pork?
Really? Thanks, I now think that we are too far apart to find common ground.
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Originally posted by normbenignI've been in the subway in St. Petersburg as well as in other places there. There is a lot more freedom there than one might think. We saw very few signs of a police state. But it is an ethnically and culturally homogeneous society that has a unified vision of themselves, almost amounting to a mythos which they want to preserve. This does not exist in the U.S. -- if the U.S. is our point of reference.
"On values, the point is that they are values determined by others, as opposed to the values of the users.
So what?"
You accept as a given that some elites should be definers of what is of value? Who?
It was during my first semester in CC in 1986, that I asked one of my instructors, who also happened to be a regent at the school, why the youngst ...[text shortened]... rage income? In either case, I would hazard a guess that fear of police is a strong reason why.
And this paricular city knows its livelihood depends on being a historic site anybody with a smattering of cultural education wants to see -- tourism. Can you think of a U.S. city that has this kind of unifying mythos? Charleston? Manhattan?