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College education should give you a sense of this intellectual past by getting you far away from the present and the mindless celebrity worship and inane pop culture that dominates it. Colleges should create an environment and shape a curriculum that maximizes exposure to the great works and the great thinkers of the Western tradition. Colleges fail in this purpose when they distract their students with courses focused on trivial subjects that have nothing to do with important works of the past. This is not to say that there’s no merit in studying current cultural practices...
...forced to dance in a thorn patch and is later hanged. “[These stories] are so incredibly different from what we’re familiar with,” Tatar says. “But they’re still widely anthologized in a sort of mindless way.” “The Jew in the Brambles,” for example, has recently been included in a collection of the Grimm’s Tales specifically marketed for children...
...Instead of exploring the hard ways to win over the West, such as with knowledge-based achievements, young radical Muslims are indulging in mindless violence, justifying it by quoting holy texts. They are only bringing down Islam. They serve neither their cause nor the holy text and only bring revulsion for Islam in the eyes of other religious groups. People will start thinking there is something in the teaching of Islam that encourages terrorism. After all, in today's world most terrorists seem to be Muslims. M.S. Prasad Avadi, India...
...farmhouses, and I hope it stays on its natural diet of deer meat. After reading your article on big cats, I am convinced that with a little patience we can both live in this world together. Dean Price Prince George, Canada Two examples in your article perfectly illustrate the mindless overindulgence of prosperous countries. You noted that the estimated tiger population in the wild is 5,000 to 7,000. Your story also reported that as many as 7,000 tigers are thought to be kept as pets in the U.S. What an indictment! It is little consolation that they...
...attacks on the U.S. [June 28]. Shortly after that news, President Bush said, "The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam [Hussein] and al-Qaeda [is] because there was a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda." I am so tired of mindless, circular and arrogant reasoning from this President. It doesn't convince me of anything and leaves me with an empty feeling about the leadership of this country. TOM BENSKY San Luis Obispo, Calif...