Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (21132)	6/22/2000 9:53:00 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The hubris behind the idea that society can be "engineered" is infinite. Remember that quaint idea from the 60's that if we would house the poor in beautiful skyscrapers they would become better people? Not only are the geniuses that came up with that idea still around, they are in charge of most of the country's institutions. . Now, suppose the link were through those characteristics that cause us to innovate more than any other nation, or to jealously guard our rights of speech, assembly, and religion, and that if one took them out (as it were, made us Canadians), we would cease to be so inventive, and would become comparatively docile about government control of the media, or the establishment of a national church.

To: Neocon who wrote (21132)	6/22/2000 9:53:00 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Suppose that there were a causal link between American culture and the "gun culture", I find that a big supposition, It would be easily tested by sampling those exposed to a lot of firearms, or the culture of firearms, and those not. Just comparing immigrant populations and their level of innovation would be fairly easy, for example by your assumption immigrants from Taiwan where guns are rare would not be innovative. Canada absurd attempts to control the media that we would never tolerate, in order to fight "Americanization". There seems to be lots of absurd attempts in America to control the media to fight liberal reporters and Disney movies. It's just a matter of which aspect of culture seems important to the groups involved. Besides, there are lots of innovative people in Canada, One of my best stock holdings is JDSU, started and run by Canadians. There are also a higher percentage of Canadian actors and singers in the U.S. than would normally be expected by the population. No Canadian differences are more likely do to a different degree of infrastructure put into place at the time of the industrial revolution and not due to guns (other than the fact that guns represented an area of advanced manufacturing of it's day). Your hypothesis has a low degree of coorelation. TP