Socialism and Secularism Suck Vitality Out of Society

[wilbur]

C'mon, the parts I liked weren't about dead guys I can't name!
This was my meat;

But that was the whole premise for his case.

If Europe is sucked dry of creativity and other intellectual achievements, his only proof was simply that he was ignorant of the people who have produced any of it. A quick google search, (or for some us, a second or two to dig through our memory banks), shows us that his "proof" is mistaken. Incontestably so.

Such acute ignorance is exemplary, even for pundits like himself. And yet, amazingly enough, even the severity of this ignorance is dwarfed by his apparent laziness to research. Words coming straight out his ass, to our ears... I feel dirty.

Since the rest of Draper's article is an attempt to assign blame for a problem that he failed to even establish as an actual problem... its all moot isnt it?

[marinejcksn]

How many Americans can name Americans outside pop-culture, sports or politics that are "great"?

Audie Murphy
Marcus Littrell
Michael Monsoor
Michael Murphy
Matthew Axelson
Danny Dietz
Thomas Edison
The Wright Brothers
Henry Ford
Samuel Colt
Milton Friedman
Thomas Sowell

I can do this all day. :D

[noonwitch]

Audie Murphy
Marcus Littrell
Michael Monsoor
Michael Murphy
Matthew Axelson
Danny Dietz
Thomas Edison
The Wright Brothers
Henry Ford
Samuel Colt
Milton Friedman
Thomas Sowell

I can do this all day. :D

Some diversity in the great americans topic:

George Washington Carver
Booker T. Washington
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Any of the Tuskegee Airman
Madame CJ Walker
Dr. Ben Carson

[Gingersnap]

I was noticing all the composers on the list and wondering how many most people could name among today's serious music composers, American or otherwise.

Few to none and that's if you stretch your definition of "serious composer". Most really good serious music is now composed for movies. Much of the rest of it is so anti-human that is literally painful to listen to, let alone like. Then you have the composers like John Cage who just screw with the audience for some kind of twisted amusement.

[linda22003]

Few to none and that's if you stretch your definition of "serious composer". Most really good serious music is now composed for movies. Much of the rest of it is so anti-human that is literally painful to listen to, let alone like. Then you have the composers like John Cage who just screw with the audience for some kind of twisted amusement.

What about John Adams? And I don't mean the second president. :)