Kakki wrote:
> I wish Americans would go back to college after a few years out in the world
> working and taking refresher courses in American Government, Political
> Science and Economics. Even though many of us are taught these subjects
> growing up, I guarantee one will be much more enlightened learning them as
> an adult. I did this in my 30s to prepare to take law courses and I walked
> away thinking I hadn't known shit in all the preceding years. Kakki
>
I could not agree more. Sometimes I feel that as a nation we require so little
of ourselves intellectually once outside the workplace. We make TV's the
centerpieces of our rooms and bitch about being in the rat race in order to buy
bigger and bigger TV's with dynamic surround sound for movies, sports and
Survivor. Consumerism consumes our nation and our time. Credit is killing us.
I firmly believe that until we re-prioritize ourselves as a body of people to
be, at the very least, citizens before we are consumers, we will be stuck with
our political lot.
Brenda
n.p.: Beth Orton - "Best Bit" (Anyone know what's up with a new record from
her?)
