On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:43:25 +0000, Stephen Howard
wrote:

On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:22:08 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

The current ethos is 'standards make people feel inferior, or superior
and so we shouldn't have any'.

I feel the current ethos seems to be to 'celebrate' the mundane, and
as such that becomes part of the 'public consciousness' - so in that
respect I suppose the statement stands.

It's worse than that IMHO. The current ethos seems also to celebrate
stupidity and the superficial.

Worse still it seems to be unnacceptable to think for oneself
nowadays.

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