I wrote: > that's a new one! one possible response: power corrupts. Look at what > happened to the Roman Republic when it became an Empire. It may have > started out pretty good, but it became totally corrupt and disgusting. > That may not be totally accurate history-wise, but it may have some > resonance.
raghu writes: Are you comfortable with this as a teacher i.e. using one oversimplified historical argument against another? any story about the real world that tries to convey understanding is by necessity over-simplified. It's only in purely deductive reasoning that one can tell the exact "truth" (though even that depends on the validity of the assumptions). Anyway, my story isn't that far off. Michael Perelman wrote: > The United States also had regional cultures, which have now degenerated into > a > boring sameness. Raghu and Ravi suggest that this is also happening in > India. I > assume that Hollywood will also blend in a little Bollywood into our domestic > culture here. good news! last time I heard, linguists report that regional accents in the US are not going away. The expectation was that accents would become homogeneous, aping the accent of the newsreaders, etc. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
