>How do you preserve history and direct seekers to facts and rational >discussions instead of getting lost and entangled in a jungle of >disinformation and fantasy? How do we educate our children so that they >have the ability to know the difference and discern truth/fact from fiction?
Yesterday's Morning Edition had an interesting interview with Matt Miller, author of "The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking" may be a good place to start. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100338745 "Yet it is equally clear that the latest conservative "strategy" cutting taxes (mostly for the well off ), standing idle while health costs soar and the ranks of the uninsured swell toward 50 million, mortgaging our future to nations like China via massive trade deficits, and deregulating our financial system with explosive results has torpedoed our public finances and fueled a pervasive sense of foreboding." ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
