Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/03

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Well, maybe some politics...
From: Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 08:06:41 -0700
References: <B71628BD.CA51%john@pinkheadedbug.com> <002701c0d365$3ebceba0$02000003@dnai.com>

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

Replies: Reply from Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: Well, maybe some politics...but surely not thismuch)
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