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Slate Magazine Says Americans Are Childish And Immature

Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:03 am
by Bill Call
I was prepared to disagree with his conclusions before I read the article:

http://www.slate.com/id/2243797/

While I have a nit or two to pick, the line that got me thinking was the line about the US budget process becoming more like what they have in California.

Re: Slate Magazine Says Americans Are Childish And Immature

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2010 4:24 am
by ryan costa
it is the culture of the post-industrial society, Charlie Brown.

It is the knowledge economy charlie brown.

For the first hundred-and-odd years, Uncle Sam's job was to dole out land and resources.

After Two World Wars, we had enough money to make a junkload of television and movie "westerns". Corny movies and dime novels are the root of conservative intellectualism.