Subject: RE: monolingualism is nothing to be proud of
From: Sean Draine (seandr@microsoft.com)
Date: Mon Apr 30 2001 - 18:13:11 GMT
Scottie:
"Unfortunately, the governance of a great people demands
subtler & more advanced talents: talents which can really
only be fostered in a setting of financial security, educational
priviledge & family connections. Without these, what one
tends to find rising to the top is a kind of bookish
industriousness coupled with a ruthless, populist ambition
from which moral considerations are quite absent.
Since I imagine very many of the list came to adulthood
during the Clinton years, they still confuse that dreadful,
clammy embrace with warmth & all that compulsive reading
with intellectual rigour."
I came of age during the Reagan years, but I assume the same
argument applies (substituting "bookish industriousness" with
"insipid emptiness").
To prevent any more false idol worship, could you remind everyone
just what is a valid indicator of intellectual rigor?
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