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To: Metacomet who wrote (39539)	9/4/2008 1:38:46 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217910

You educate the population to specialize on narrow field in which he can be productive. The person believes perfectly capable and educated. What is not pointed out is that such a person lacks a lot of knowledge to be able to act on a democracy. That knowledge say of humanities, history, economics, political science, anthropology) is what enables the citizen to know how the nation-state operates. In Europe, owing to their tragic history of the Eurasia, they discovered that it is dangerous not to know the modus operandi of the nation-state. Being more knowlegeable about that entity forces their nation-states to thread lightly on their citizenry. The US needs a shock treatment on culture. Something akin to what was done to science and engineering in 1958 after the Sputnik was launched and the US perceived itself as left behind. I don't think this will be implemented by the government itself without a major pressure form society. It is that lack of the world as a whole that allows adventures in other lands and the continuation of the huge spending on defense since the locals ignore the world at large.