In Ignorance We Trust

[Mark MacKenzie]

Betty, I just supplied the link. It is Laurie's observation. I use to follow the Opinionator at the NYT religiously, now not so much. There are many good articles, all about Civil War era.

When I was in high school, I didn't care a flip about history. But I think what I lacked was discipline. In anything. I think that is what is missing. Not the corporal type, but the idea that hard work and discipline pays dividends. We have too many diversions today, maybe internet forums are one of them.

Basically, the article above argues that our education is focused on money, business, etc. A friend told me he hoped his son would be a baseball player in order to get a scholarship. Money used to be the root of all evil.

We are all part of society and society's faults are our own. We don't want to hear it; we deny it. Its human nature and the humans are far outweighing the nature. This abhorrent and aberrant behavior we just witnessed is almost predictable. "The fault, dear Brutus, lies in ourselves..." Its commercialism vs. enlightenment. You want a big shiny car or do want to decline verbs so you can read Catullus's Odi et Amo? Yet, society is a beast of its own. One person can't change the world. We are helpless to the trends. But, I quit banging my head against the wall along time ago.