[FRIAM] Vote: The future of our nation depends on it | Letters To Editor | santafenewmexican.com

[Marcus Daniels]

I think everyone should have the opportunity to pursue their curiosity pretty much unfettered.  That’s what prosperity depends upon.   To approximate this freedom by issuing public debt for education is too little and too late.   That said, I voted for the issuance of such debt even though I am suspicious of the organizations that could receive the money and the thinking of people that like these organizations.   (Of course, I am way more than suspicious of the other side.)  I would rather raise taxes to address mental health problems and to ensure a basic income because the zombie hoard is becoming a real danger.   Another idea is to discourage reproduction through tax incentives, recognizing there will be fewer jobs that can’t be automated.  Jobs like communicating crystallized knowledge to young people.

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
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Date: Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 11:27 AM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Vote: The future of our nation depends on it | Letters To Editor | santafenewmexican.com

Hi, Marcus,

So, I take it, you ==>Don’t<== think that “…the future safety and prosperity of our nation depends on...” getting more resources ”…to education at every level”?

My own view is (FWIW) that, despite the many faults you identify, some time in a college or university is a good idea for most people and that society gains from giving some highly-educated people the opportunity to pursue their curiosity pretty much unfettered.  I wish the professoriate was, as a rule, more grateful for the opportunities that academic freedom gives them  and less arrogant in the expression of their inexpert opinions.  I am an “alumnus” of the ferocious battle between the California republican party and the Berkeley campus activists of the sixties.  I am increasingly doubtful that recruitment for political action, in any sense, ought to be part of the portfolio of any professor.    I hate to say it, but Reagan may have won THAT argument.  The moat around the ivory tower may be part of the deal.

What I would hate to see is that because of well-founded distaste for some academics’ behavior, people like yourself adopt a global contempt for education at every level.

Nick

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/academia-is-a-cult/2018/10/31/eea787a0-bd08-11e8-b7d2-0773aa1e33da_story.html

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com<mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com>> on behalf of Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net<mailto:owen at backspaces.net>>
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Date: Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 9:34 AM
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Subject: [FRIAM] Vote: The future of our nation depends on it | Letters To Editor | santafenewmexican.com

Frank and Nick in the Santa Fe newspaper:
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/vote-the-future-of-our-nation-depends-on-it/article_75256ffa-c10f-565b-ac01-debb4dfe3d90.html

   -- Owen

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