From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sun Jun 29 2003 - 16:05:36 MDT
On Saturday 28 June 2003 22:59, Lee Corbin wrote:
> Mike writes
>
> > <<So why the transatlantic journalistic rift? Are American journalists
> > simply spineless? Do they toe the line because they love the President?
> > Or because their employers do?
> >
> > The answer, I think, is more complex. Americans in all walks of life
> > have a respect for authority that the cynical Brits jettisoned somewhere
> > around the time of Profumo and Christine Keeler.
>
> Yeah, it'd probably cause you a coronary to actually admit that anyone
> else's view might be internally consistent, or be based on anything except
> obeisance to authority, ignorance, or evil intentions.
Well, I doubt both notions very much. Full internal consistency is hard to
come by in some of these subjects, especially when consistent on the
fundamental polotical, ethical, and philosophical underpinnings is not
terribly evident.
The first notion that we Americans have an overblown respect for authority
really is a shocker though. We'uns fairly well invented disrespect for
governmental authorities and threw a successful revolution to underline the
point and supposedly formed governing documents precisely to limit and
constrain such authority and keep it out of folks' hair as much as possible.
Now, it obviously wasn't a rousing success or we wouldn't be where we are
now. I wonder if our schools simply neglected to teach such things to a few
generations?
- samantha
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