Comment 41197

By Michelle Martin (registered) - website | Posted May 27, 2010 at 17:24:17

I guess I would counter that by saying that RTH isn't anyone's private residence, but rather an agora.

Point taken, Highwater. I'll see your Greek reference and raise you another. Came across this today somewhere else, and went to the source- it's from the graduation speech Neil Postman never gave:

To be an Athenian is to understand that the thread which holds civilized society together is thin and vulnerable; therefore, Athenians place great value on tradition, social restraint, and continuity. To an Athenian, bad manners are acts of violence against the social order. The modern Visigoth cares very little about any of this. The Visigoths think of themselves as the center of the universe. Tradition exists for their own convenience, good manners are an affectation and a burden, and history is merely what is in yesterday's newspaper.

“Conviction without experience makes for harshness. ” Flannery O'Connor

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