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On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Christina Spiesel wrote:
As testimony to the importance of feeling and the emotions as guides to
value -- something very much devalued at the moment as humanities and arts
budgets are slashed and education is increasingly thought of as training.
-- Can you elaborate on this? This, in the United States, is a crisis of
conscience and citizenry that is ongoing and worsening; humanities, arts,
music, and even phys ed programs are being cut out of K-12 schools - not
to mention artschools themselves, which are increasingly becoming
vocational feeds for the tech industries. I do think this plays into our
inordinate fear of ebola, our magnification of crISIS in general, and our
deep ignorance of conflict and violence (although we practice both with
impunity). Comments appreciated, and thanks, Alan
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