Anonymous
03/29/2014 21:55
Subject: Are SLACS losing their luster?
Anonymous wrote:I agree that too much of the teaching has become cult political liberalism which is not empowering for the individual or even academic. Classic western liberal arts with grammar, history, philosophy , reading and writing is a good education. If the country would go back to more pure capitalism (flat tax), these folks would thrive in small business but they are being forced into crony capitalism/government economy that has too few places for ideas and dreams. And ironically their own politics screwed them.
Because there's lots of room for ideas in "pure capitalism" with regressive flat taxes and gross income disparities. I suspect that in a society where what we think of as the top 1% becomes the top .000001%, that you won;t like the ideas that the rest of such a destabilized society would generate.
Anonymous
03/29/2014 09:46
Subject: Are SLACS losing their luster?
I agree that too much of the teaching has become cult political liberalism which is not empowering for the individual or even academic. Classic western liberal arts with grammar, history, philosophy , reading and writing is a good education. If the country would go back to more pure capitalism (flat tax), these folks would thrive in small business but they are being forced into crony capitalism/government economy that has too few places for ideas and dreams. And ironically their own politics screwed them.