From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 07:09:10 MDT
Greg Burch:
<<Unfortunately,
we had a tumultuous and violent adolescence and early adulthood (the
19th and 20th centuries ... to continue the metaphor. A central thesis
of my current world-view is that the West took a deeply wrong turn in
the French Revolution, which fully expressed itself in both the
"premature rationalism" (no time to explain) of Marxism and the
regressive emotionalism of the Romantic movement. .......
I'm currently reading "The Culture of Hope" by Frederick Turner, and
hope to be able to write an extended review of it some time in the next
couple of weeks -- for now, let me say that folks who found your post
stimulating may well enjoy this book as one that shares the idea that
much of what has happened *since* the 18th century as wrong-headed.
Greg Burch
Vice-President, Extropy Institute>>
For me its unhelpful to relegate all the brilliance or all the belecosity of
an age to an artificial/random concept called a "century." The take-off
point, for all things fair and foul in society has been education, especially
technical education. Poets and Opera stars are rarely the progenitors of
inventions, which frequently change how people live, for example. So
technical education, or at least interest is essential.
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