What's wrong with Society?

[Big_John]

What you read is not what you are.

Case 1.
Reading Playboy does not make you a Playboy.

Case 2.
Reading Philosophy does not make you a Philosopher.

now you tell me! i wasted all this time trying to catch a body coming though the rye..

[GoreBag]

I would normally agree with that, but I disagree for one reason. If the people were more intelligent, which is school's responsibility, then there would more people shopping for similar things as me. If you consider the alternative: Communism, there would no Niettzsche or any other books that could be even remotely against communist thought. Capitalism allows for whatever you want. Which is precisely why people need to be educated properly, not the idiotic "poster making" education we have here in Canada.

Well, public schools are designed, first and foremost, to keep kids off the street. Secondly, there are plenty of other alternatives to Capitalism other than Communism.

However, I agree that the particular brand of indoctrination we have in Canada sucks like a Hoover.

[Redleg]

Well, public schools are designed, first and foremost, to keep kids off the street.

Incorrect - that was not why public schools were designed and then funded by the taxpayers of many nations. However that is how many parents treat school nowadays - to include the students themselves.

Secondly, there are plenty of other alternatives to Capitalism other than Communism.

And most are just as ineffictent or worse the Capitalism

However, I agree that the particular brand of indoctrination we have in Canada sucks like a Hoover.

All one must do is look at why - normally the answer for such can be seen looking into the mirror - and within the people immediately around you. Lack of desire to recieve an education comes from ........ (insert your choice of words)

[|OCS|Virus]

I like the stupid youths of today, it makes it easier for youths like me to make it to heights I could not normaly achieve.

[Byzantine Prince]

Yeah but you see I don't see how youths are necessarilly any worse then the adults. Adults were youths some day, and IMO the era in which they were raised does not make that much of a difference, as opposed to the amount of culture they recieve. And no culture is not just having read literature.

What you read is not what you are.

Case 1.
Reading Playboy does not make you a Playboy.

Case 2.
Reading Philosophy does not make you a Philosopher.

No one, and certainly not me, stated that they are philosophers. And if you read, study, and understand philosophy DOES make you a philosopher, because philosophy mean love of knowledge.

Reading Playboy does make you horny though, it definetly has an effect on you.