[lbo-talk] separation of state and culture

[Shane Mage]

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> On Oct 27, 2009, at 4:44 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
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>> One thing that Kurlansky points out, which I'd never thought of
>> before, is that among western republics the u.s. is almost unique in
>> that there isn't one artist, author, composer, or philosopher on our
>> currency.

But there is one.  Ben Franklin was a world-famous natural philosopher  
(the 19th century term for scientist) and a pretty damn successful  
author as well.


> And it does put loads of them on postage stamps.
>

Shane Mage


> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos