> I reiterate that the servants of the ruling class may decide to write
> history any way it serves their purpose, but it won't wash. When I was
in
> graduate school I was made to learn this "history," or rather to slide
down
> that slippery deconstructionist slope that leads to their "history" and
I
> left academia in disgust. There are many others who did so as well. And,
> when you lose your best and brightest, when they decide that your
> presentation of reality is hogwash...then you go the way of the
> scholastics...down the hole of oblivion.
>
> The point is that a society with any hope of survival must have a layer
of
> "selfless" artists, teachers, thinkers who articulate and express the
> social vision that make it a desirable, vital thing. Advertising only
> simulates this activity and it isn't enough. Your understanding of
history,
> art, and culture will not vanish. It will simply go underground. It will
> survive and be communicated by people who care about, dare I say it,
truth
> and beauty.
>
> Joanna
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"Anyone who writes...however gloomy its message may be, is necessarily an optimist. If the pessimists really believed what they were saying there would be no point in saying it."
Joan Robinson