we don't value education as a country compared to other nations. We could start there as to why this is. Is our ratio of noise (bullshit) to signal higher than other develped nations? Not sure how one would measure that. Many of the values people profess to hold they do not. The people consequently, to the extent they are aware, feel hol…
we don't value education as a country compared to other nations. We could start there as to why this is. Is our ratio of noise (bullshit) to signal higher than other develped nations? Not sure how one would measure that. Many of the values people profess to hold they do not. The people consequently, to the extent they are aware, feel hollow. This is always true but at times the dichotomy is very bad. I'm thinking of communism and how people experienced it in USSR late cold war before the collapse.
steve reed, that's a great point. Robert Reich has talked about the demise of our beliefs in the common good. I think people still value education, but some only value it for their children. Republican politicians today obviously feel this way.
You reminded me of a conversation I had this summer while traveling outside of the US. A couple struck up a conversation about our politics. At some point in the conversation, one mentioned how the Republicans were always talking about how they really love the military service people and asked if that were true. I told her no. It was BS. It's just a marketing strategy. They vote against funding for health services for them. It's the Democratic Party who seeks to appropriate funding and promote policies to help our military. The Dems aren't perfect but the Republicans obstruct good things for our service people all the time.
we don't value education as a country compared to other nations. We could start there as to why this is. Is our ratio of noise (bullshit) to signal higher than other develped nations? Not sure how one would measure that. Many of the values people profess to hold they do not. The people consequently, to the extent they are aware, feel hollow. This is always true but at times the dichotomy is very bad. I'm thinking of communism and how people experienced it in USSR late cold war before the collapse.
steve reed, that's a great point. Robert Reich has talked about the demise of our beliefs in the common good. I think people still value education, but some only value it for their children. Republican politicians today obviously feel this way.
You reminded me of a conversation I had this summer while traveling outside of the US. A couple struck up a conversation about our politics. At some point in the conversation, one mentioned how the Republicans were always talking about how they really love the military service people and asked if that were true. I told her no. It was BS. It's just a marketing strategy. They vote against funding for health services for them. It's the Democratic Party who seeks to appropriate funding and promote policies to help our military. The Dems aren't perfect but the Republicans obstruct good things for our service people all the time.