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On Thought, Engagement, and Repeated Mistakes
Topic: Current Events 10:36 pm EDT, Oct 10, 2008

From the archive:

I have been troubled for some time now by the notion of college students not engaged in conversations beyond themselves, in what should have been their own expression of empowerment on campus, and their willingness to accept the status quo without questioning it. I hope that this debacle will change all that.

It's sad to consider that after four years of the best education money can buy, these students have only over the last year "been forced to relearn the lessons" of their great-grandparents' generation. One would hope that the well educated wouldn't need to witness firsthand a repetition of mistakes of the past to get the point.

Do you understand the difference between "Is it worth buying?" and "Can it be sold?"

The credit crash of the late 2000s should have been followed by decades of soul-searching; instead, even before the old bubble had fully deflated, a new mania began to take hold ... that the modest expansion of domestic (and "green"!) energy production can produce social harmony and national economic well-being.

The bubble cycle has replaced the business cycle.

On Thought, Engagement, and Repeated Mistakes



 
 
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