Re: Frontier House - A Luddite Show?

From: T0Morrow@aol.com
Date: Fri May 03 2002 - 12:26:11 MDT


Mike wrote, in relevant part:

>I did become greatly concerned at the sort of
>messages that this broadcast is trying to send in the area of promoting
>the romance of a primitive pastoral existence over modern life.

You might find it consoling, then, to hear that I know of at least two
libertarian economics professors who have worked the show into their lessons,
all with the aim of demonstrating to their students exactly how *un*romantic
(or, at least, how dreary and uncomfortable) life was only a very short while
ago. One of those two reports that he uses the show as a counter to the
claim that modern market societies commodify and exploit women. Both
professors find the show makes those points very clearly and convincingly to
their students.

T.0. Morrow
http://members.aol.com/t0morrow/T0Mpage.html



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