Are all countries culturally bankrupt, or is it just America?

[renard_ruse]

"Everyone talks about this demographic transformation as if it’s a natural phenomenon, like Hurricane Sandy. Indeed, I notice that many of those exulting in the inevitable eclipse of “white America” are the same people who assure me that demographic arguments about the Islamization of Europe are completely preposterous. But in neither the United States nor Europe is it a natural phenomenon. Rather, it’s the fruit of conscious government policy."

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/333583/tribal-america-mark-steyn

Recommended read.

And most of the posters on here on not only aware of it, they support it so much they make up alts who pretend to be opposed to it.

 

[tactful]

Almost all Americans can identify Tom Cruise and Bruce Willis, but a lot of them can't name the Speaker of the House. Is this common in all or most nations?

The Speaker of the House is usually a Woman, except for some Middle eastern Nations.


Ok, it was meant to be Household, for those who/whom are slow.

 

[unregistered]

 

[badbabysitter]

any nation that doesnt support its arts is generally culturally bankrupt, at least from a historical perspective


now , quick show of hands... which party in the states contributes more funding to the arts

weird, I dont see many hands up from the right side of the room

 

[blobfish]

any nation that doesnt support its arts is generally culturally bankrupt, at least from a historical perspective


now , quick show of hands... which party in the states contributes more funding to the arts

weird, I dont see many hands up from the right side of the room

 

[badbabysitter]

funny how you dont mention France, or Italy, or the UK


and I bet China has never contributed anything culturally to the arts

 

[blobfish]

funny how you dont mention France, or Italy, or the UK


and I bet China has never contributed anything culturally to the arts

Although Mao's China declared classical Chinese art "counter-revolutionary", you are correct in stating that the government contributed much to Chinese culture.

Mostly in the form of posters.

 

[Boxlicker101]

America once had a culture that valued civic-mindlessness. I have a scrapbook from the 1880s that I bought off of someone for $1. It belonged to a young woman. It began life as her music book, but she decided to fill it instead with news clippings that interested her. Everyone of them involved local, state, national or international leaders in some way. To her, Grover Cleveland and Queen Victoria were celebrities.

One scrabook kept by one woman is hardly evidence of anything. Besides, most people now think of Obama and Queen Elizabeth as being famous.

 

[blobfish]

One scrabook kept by one woman is hardly evidence of anything. Besides, most people now think of Obama and Queen Elizabeth as being famous.

That was an example, not proof.

 

[coastal-boy]

Bullshit.

Bullshit, on many levels.

So far, the only people that disagree, are those that I am talking about. You call it bullshit. I see reality. Old fucks that have done nothing with their lives that are facing their mortality are bummed that life has passed them aside. Now when they look around, all they see are plots against them. Anyone that questions their thought process are called ignorant. Yet it is their choices that has limited their minds.

 

[Disgustipated]

The liberal teaching establishment has left the last generation and the one now emerging with little hope of succeeding in the future.

They will be smarter than you. They will always be smarter than you.

 

[blobfish]

So far, the only people that disagree, are those that I am talking about. You call it bullshit. I see reality. Old fucks that have done nothing with their lives that are facing their mortality are bummed that life has passed them aside. Now when they look around, all they see are plots against them. Anyone that questions their thought process are called ignorant. Yet it is their choices that has limited their minds.

This has shit to do with the OP.

 

[Boxlicker101]

The Speaker of the House is usually a Women, except for some Middle eastern Nations.

That's ridiculous. In the US, there has only been one female speaker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi

 

[nonfictional]

Culture has little to do with knowing the Speaker of the House or how much money is given to the arts. I think it has more to do with the importance given to non-material matters in day-to-day life.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

So far, the only people that disagree, are those that I am talking about. You call it bullshit. I see reality. Old fucks that have done nothing with their lives that are facing their mortality are bummed that life has passed them aside. Now when they look around, all they see are plots against them. Anyone that questions their thought process are called ignorant. Yet it is their choices that has limited their minds.

We can give you concrete example of your diversity being somewhat delusional and that can be seen in the treatment of the conservative that happens to be black, hispanic, female, gay, Indian, you name it. When this type of "diversity' is seen then we are treated to "Uncle Tom," "Stupid," and all sorts of other colorful ascriptions. It is an internally reenforcing school of thought in which diversity is only celebrated in conjunction with adherence to the shifting emotions of the consensus and whims of the mob. And furthermore, it is not just the right which recognizes this phenomenon.

If you quietly accept and go along no matter what your feelings are, ultimately you internalize what you're saying, because it's too hard to believe one thing and say another. I can see it very strikingly in my own background. Go to any elite university and you are usually speaking to very disciplined people, people who have been selected for obedience.
Noam Chomsky

The big lesson for me [working at NPR] was the intolerance of so-called liberals. I say intolerance because I grew up as a black Democrat in Brooklyn, N.Y., and always thought it was the Archie Bunker Republicans who practiced intolerance. My experience at NPR revealed to me how rigid liberals can be when their orthodoxy is challenged. I was the devil for simply raising questions, offering a different viewpoint, not shutting my mouth about the excesses of liberalism — a bad guy, a traitor to the cause.
Juan Williams

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

And no, life has not passed me by.

I have flown with eagles and accomplished many things and I still mentor youth in proper thinking as regards to the Classic Liberalism of Adam Smith and the Founding Fathers as opposed to the liberalism of the mid-19th century Germany, the Fabian Socialists of England and the American Progressive movement.

I am anything but bummed out, I am just observing and chronicling the change and noting historically what has become of those societies which went down this path. 1860's Germany became 1930's Germany.

 

[Byron In Exile]

And no, life has not passed me by.

I have flown with eagles and accomplished many things and I still mentor youth in proper thinking as regards to the Classic Liberalism of Adam Smith and the Founding Fathers as opposed to the liberalism of the mid-19th century Germany, the Fabian Socialists of England and the American Progressive movement.

I am anything but bummed out, I am just observing and chronicling the change and noting historically what has become of those societies which went down this path. 1860's Germany became 1930's Germany.

Like 1850's America became 1950's America?

I've got the better time span...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Like 1850's America became 1950's America?

I've got the better time span...

We are still the same people, we just made more clever gadgets and of course the same is true for the comparison of 1750's man to 1850's man...

I like the way Hülsmann outlines the generational conceit of early 20th Century Vienna and their evolution (as measured by technology) which made Socialism a scientific polity of proven worth in his biography of Mises, "The Last Knight of Liberalism."

Of course, when Socialism collapsed, they took him off ignore and implored him to fix it.

 

[hogjack]

Family Guy isn't an animated sitcom.

It's a documentary.

 

[tactful]

That's ridiculous. In the US, there has only been one female speaker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi

Households, households, it was a fuckin' joke,

 

[JBCorbell]

The liberal teaching establishment has left the last generation and the one now emerging with little hope of succeeding in the future.

Bullshit! They blame lies with parents who would rather see their children's egos inflated and their minds left empty. If parents demanded teachers in the classrooms, not "educators" things would be different.

The governments fault lies in caving to parents (voters) and not maintaining and enforcing standards.