Re: Getting You Libertarians' Goats

Posted by Frank Wimberly-2 on Sep 14, 2020; 2:21am
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My 56 year-old daughter smokes cigarettes.  She is the head Latin teacher at an elite boarding school in upstate New York.  I ask her why she smokes and I point out that most Latin teachers don't.  It may be classist but it seems to me that very few professionals smoke.  She says, "Believe me, I know".  Since most places make you go outside to smoke she meets all the smokers.  So, this unhealthy activity leads to mixing.  Unless she's the only teacher who smokes, which is possible.

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020, 4:14 PM David Eric Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:

This idea of places where people of different walks “encounter each other” — or even better have something meaningful to do with each other, has an interesting role at a certain period of social change in Japan.

From a friend and colleague:

https://www.amazon.com/Bonds-Civility-Aesthetic-Political-Structural/dp/0521601150

The author argues that the creation of “publics” was an important social innovation in getting around the codified barriers in an officially feudal society, de facto before it was possible de jure.

Eric

On Sep 13, 2020, at 1:27 PM, <[hidden email]> <[hidden email]> wrote:

This should do it!

 

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/michael-j-sandel/the-tyranny-of-merit/

 

The thesis is that “meritocracy” is the cause of the fact that the us is now the least socially mobile country among the western democracies.  

 

Nick 

 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

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https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

 

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