By Arran Gold
Short shrift is given to youngsters in Asian culture and that is one of the factors which has inhibited the development there in all spheres, including scientific, cultural and economic. That is why one sees leaders of China and India, who would feel more comfortable in a nursing home than the world stage. But here is a meme to watch.
By Dalwhinnie
Sometimes it seems like every bad idea of the 1970s refuses to die but lumbers forward as one of the Great Big Stupid Unkillable Ideas. It seems that some mistakes are so large, so widely held, so deeply believed, that their absurdity must be worked out tragically, in wasted lives and economic and spiritual devastation. The Big Stupid Unkillable Idea of the 1970s under discussion today is Identity Politics. The Wikipedia article shows that a) it was an idea from the 1970s and b) it is of leftist origin. Read the rest…
