Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:57 PM 5/2/01 -0400, Marc James Small wrote: > >The great evil of the American middle-class in the 1950's was a refusal to >discuss "religion or politics". Hence, when their kids wandered off to >college, they were fair game for the statist professors they encountered, >and had no tools to deal with the rather soft and ill-defined arguments >presented them. The 'campus revolution' of the '60's resulted. (My own >parents discussed politics and religion constantly, so I had an evolved >dialectic of my own by the time I was in tenth grade -- if there was a >single skill I picked up at the dinner table, it was political discourse! >Hence, I was immune to the lure of that 'gospel of greed', the 'lure of the >Left'.) > >Marc Marc, Congratulations on a great great, in toto, post. And what you said above is sooooo true. Fortunately, as with you, my parents discussed politics and religion constantly and I was, therefore, immune to the persuasions of academia. My photographs reflect my heritage. :-) Jim