Are you arguing that it's a zero sum game?Originally Posted by Vuk
Re: Some Thoughts on Culture and America
Are you arguing that it's a zero sum game?But you are missing my point. I am not arguing that their ideals were good, but that it is better to define yourself by ideals (whatever they are), than material pop-culture.
EDIT: One of those ideals for instance could be a firm belief that all men are equal, and that racism is unfounded and wrong. I would prefer to live with people who identified themselves with ideals like that instead of the type of jeans that they are wearing and where they went to school.
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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