Somebody once wrote that true ignorance is rejecting something you know nothing about.
You got just four paragraphs in, and then went off on a polemic of your own based on one offhand comment by the reviewer.
“You got just four paragraphs in, and then went off on a polemic of your own based on one offhand comment by the reviewer.”
Not exactly, I was around at that time, and before, and active in the political dealings of the time. I was in early college as a high school student in the 60’s and was exposed to the jargon of the day and how it was being misrepresented. In many cases it was educators that were doing the deed and using a system designed for it. So I was in the “learning atmosphere” and I was in ‘Nam in the late 60’s sent home on my back.
The education and not informing of people to include midrange kids, which I feel this book is aimed at, was no less disingenuous than it was then. The only difference is that it is not near as stealthy but is far more outreaching. And lies become the truth if they are pushed enough. (See Alinsky)
We are no longer a growing nation. We are losing ground with the acceptance of a lower standard than we had, and the co joining of leaders that are not concerned with our well being anymore, just their power and paycheck. They got theirs and the did it walking right over the backs of the people they swore to act in the best interest of. They lied!
I worked military and government for over half my life and have seen the transition from the people to the selected. And it was not the right direction to go. We’ve have transitioned from a democracy to an anarchy of the elite as they prefer to be considered ignoring the people and doing basically what they want to do following laws they created or even common sense on many occasions. We are headed to the stone age, not the future.
We have more wars, less healing, more brutality and violence, more hatred and lack of understanding. We have less communication, less interaction of ideas and more separation based upon appearance than differences. We celebrate the differences rather than likenesses that can be built upon while we strike out at those that don’t share our personal outlook closing the door to compromise or even determination of change.
And we have people that bury their heads in the sand or herd themselves into the corral and go bah letting it happen and thinking everything is good because it hasn’t hurt them enough yet. The evil is praised (hamas), the improvement is discouraged, and the lines of communication are closed. I see that as coming to nothing and retreating to worse. And that reviewer is not alone. There are armies of them out there.
wy69
“You got just four paragraphs in, and then went off on a polemic of your own based on one offhand comment by the reviewer.”
Not exactly, I was around at that time, and before, and active in the political dealings of the time. I was in early college as a high school student in the 60’s and was exposed to the jargon of the day and how it was being misrepresented. In many cases it was educators that were doing the deed and using a system designed for it. So I was in the “learning atmosphere” and I was in ‘Nam in the late 60’s sent home on my back.
The education and not informing of people to include midrange kids, which I feel this book is aimed at, was no less disingenuous than it was then. The only difference is that it is not near as stealthy but is far more outreaching. And lies become the truth if they are pushed enough. (See Alinsky)
We are no longer a growing nation. We are losing ground with the acceptance of a lower standard than we had, and the co joining of leaders that are not concerned with our well being anymore, just their power and paycheck. They got theirs and the did it walking right over the backs of the people they swore to act in the best interest of. They lied!
I worked military and government for over half my life and have seen the transition from the people to the selected. And it was not the right direction to go. We’ve have transitioned from a democracy to an anarchy of the elite as they prefer to be considered ignoring the people and doing basically what they want to do following laws they created or even common sense on many occasions. We are headed to the stone age, not the future.
We have more wars, less healing, more brutality and violence, more hatred and lack of understanding. We have less communication, less interaction of ideas and more separation based upon appearance than differences. We celebrate the differences rather than likenesses that can be built upon while we strike out at those that don’t share our personal outlook closing the door to compromise or even determination of change.
And we have people that bury their heads in the sand or herd themselves into the corral and go bah letting it happen and thinking everything is good because it hasn’t hurt them enough yet. The evil is praised (hamas), the improvement is discouraged, and the lines of communication are closed. I see that as coming to nothing and retreating to worse. And that reviewer is not alone. There are armies of them out there.
wy69