Re: Some Laws [OT]
Date: 4 Oct 2004 06:00:28 -0700
Message-ID: <e4330f45.0410040500.2fed8ac3_at_posting.google.com>
"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message news:<JF%7d.301930$mD.108907_at_attbi_s02>...
> And why do we qualify this with "this generation."
And which is "this generation"? Some participants of this group double
the age of others.
> What evidence
This is not so simple. It is clear that the average education of my
> do we have that people of our parents' generation just loved theory?
> It is very easy to believe that things are heading downhill and that
> each generation is inferior to the previous; Plato thought so.
> But in fact, the reverese is true.
The most part of the progress is made by the elites, and not by the
average people.
I can speak about my country and my enviroment only, and there are
many factors.
For instance some decades ago the universities were a lot more elitist
than now.
The level of sacrifice that my generation is willing to tolerate is a
lot lower than the one of my parents' and grand parents' generations,
but higher than the one of the next generations.
The sense of the "duty" is very different in my generation and in my
grand parents's generation. We are extremely hedonist compared to
them.
The social and economical motivations for having a very good education
are less important than in the past. Any no-brainer salesmen often
earns more than a good scientist, and has a better social
consideration.
My generation had a lot more alternatives to the reading and the
studying than my grand parent's generation, but also a lot more
opportunities to access to good quality learning sources.
etc, etc.
Regards Received on Mon Oct 04 2004 - 15:00:28 CEST