On 01/10/2011 08:26 AM, tartbrain wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain<no_re...@...> wrote: >> >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig"<LEnglish5@> wrote: >>> I agree with the point you are making Willy, but when you use that kind of >>> language to make it, people are very unlikely to pay attention. >>> >>> I just quote our good Sherrif Dupnik at 'em and leave it at that. >>> >>> Lawson (accused of being a rightwing fanatic on Talking Points Memo for >>> quoting a [now internationally] respected sheriff basically saying "can't >>> we all just get along?") >> Sounds more like a left wing nut case. "CAn't we all just get along?" What a >> perposterous idea! Why if the founding fathers wanted us to get along they >> would have written Kumbaya into the Constitution. GEtting along means giving >> up our god given rights to individual liberty and freedom to pursue even our >> most deviant of desires, is counter to the sacredness of ones vibrant ego >> stretched across the land from sea to shining sea, and violates the sacred >> vow that "I am right, damn it. Always. " > And dab nabbit the founding fathers would not have made the national symbol > the Golden Ego if they did not want us to let out egos soar high and across > the vastness of the sky.
Or perhaps our educational system since the 1980s has been too obsessed with raising the self-esteem of students.
