On Jan 28, 2011, at 2:40 PM, c b wrote:
> Carrol: Well, if true, it has always been that way, there being only
> the haze of nostalgia that creates the illusion it has ever been
> different. My old geezer sitting in front of the general store and
> grousing.
>
> ^^^^^
> CB: I agree with you that some measure of this has always been true.
> Our American anti-intellectual "national character" has probably been
> cultivated by the powers-that-be, if not initiated by them.
And might this have something to do with that old question, Why no socialism in America? Yeah, sure, there are complex thickets of cause and effect that are hard to untangle, but, really...