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10/02/11(Sun)13:32 No.2113545>>2113313
Right
and they are going to crash and burn if they don't figure out their way
out of this anti-intellectual mindset. I think it has a lot to do with
Christianity because it is historically the most anti-intellectual of
the three Abrahamic religions (I think the scale is tipping now because
of radical Islam, but historically Islam was far more rational as a
religion than Medieval Christianity) but it's part of the culture. And
the culture has signed its own death warrant if it doesn't fix itself.
If
we look at the great societies of the past, their philosophers, their
artists, their engineers and their architects, are the ones we admire.
Not their theologians.
>>2113489
And
here comes the anti-intellectual train. How do you know that Asian
Studies is on every mark opposed to the West? Just because it is the
study of another culture? Just because it is the study of a culture that
hasn't directly contributed to America's foundations? Or maybe even
historians are useless in your perfect world.
And this idea of
soft hands is ridiculous. You think you're hard? And you think that
you're the salt of the earth? You should probably work 16 hour days, 7
days a week with only one day off in the whole year. Maybe then we'll
talk about how salt of the earth you are.
I have a feeling that a
lot of Americans want to go back to that way of life. Manufacturing
jobs for honest hardworking Americans. But it is an unrealistic dream.
It would be the death of the American corporation that you love so much.
They have to make money but if they just give all the jobs to Americans
with their minimum wage laws, and their holidays, they can't survive in
a modern globalized economy.
And as much as American labourers
think they are tough, strong, simple folk, wholesome and right, if you
want America to succeed, the labourers can't. Unless they are willing to
degrade themselves to the point of slavery for the glory of the state
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