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Posted Jan 29, 2012 by CASSEROLEON
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No offence taken...
How could the juggernaut comment possibly be conceived as a compliment?
But I find it a common reaction to my suggestion that we all need to seriously re-think most of the "received wisdom" in all the voluminous writings of "Book Culture" over the last 250 years.. I am not sure which of the St. Augustines prayed "Lord make me good. But not just yet."
My juggernaut approach is not unconnected, I think, to the fact that I married into French Society back in the Sixties- It is a Society/Culture/Civilization in which there is a stronger tradition of trying to work things out through reasoned discussion, where I find people much more prepared to discuss/converse at that kind of level.
Someone on the now defunct History Message Board commented in a brief time there in the Autumn commented , having more recently done the reverse- marry into English life, he finds that people in England are often exasperated by his tendency to try to engage them in deep and serious conversation. I have never had much time for idle conversation- too busy trying to work at life.
But then which St. Augustine prayed "Lord make me good. But not just yet."
All the best with your Social Sciences studies- It probably means that we are doomed to ever disagree. I did teach A Level Economics for a while, but largely in order to help my students to understand the conceptual framework that people have tried to apply in treating economics as a science, while fortunately our A Level course included a paper on Economic and Social History to bring in a touch of reality and realism.
Sorry if this looks like another lecture.. I would like to think of it as a friendly parting.
Cass
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