Remember a brief treatment of Lysenkoism when I studied genetics in the early-mid 70's.
Appreciate your distinction of types of freedom, very much along the lines of Jefferson Cowie's recent Pulitzer winning history, 'Freedom's Dominion', where he traces two disparate and conflicting uses of the concept of freedom to (as I recall) before …
Remember a brief treatment of Lysenkoism when I studied genetics in the early-mid 70's.
Appreciate your distinction of types of freedom, very much along the lines of Jefferson Cowie's recent Pulitzer winning history, 'Freedom's Dominion', where he traces two disparate and conflicting uses of the concept of freedom to (as I recall) before the founding of the Union. One notion was the freedom of thought and religious belief and to 'the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness', the other being the freedom to dominate others (women, native Americans, slaves, the poor) without interference from government authority.
Both those notions of freedom continue to characterize American life and internal conflict. Seems this disparity needs to be addressed in the education of the youth for a couple generations to fully extirpate it, since the belief is culturally transmitted. Both parties agree on this point, just don't agree which freedom should define America's future.
Alas it appears to me that we are increasingly allowing others, and commercial media in particular, to define what our nation's culture is. It's sidewalk level and collaborative or it isn't really ours.
Remember a brief treatment of Lysenkoism when I studied genetics in the early-mid 70's.
Appreciate your distinction of types of freedom, very much along the lines of Jefferson Cowie's recent Pulitzer winning history, 'Freedom's Dominion', where he traces two disparate and conflicting uses of the concept of freedom to (as I recall) before the founding of the Union. One notion was the freedom of thought and religious belief and to 'the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness', the other being the freedom to dominate others (women, native Americans, slaves, the poor) without interference from government authority.
Both those notions of freedom continue to characterize American life and internal conflict. Seems this disparity needs to be addressed in the education of the youth for a couple generations to fully extirpate it, since the belief is culturally transmitted. Both parties agree on this point, just don't agree which freedom should define America's future.
Alas it appears to me that we are increasingly allowing others, and commercial media in particular, to define what our nation's culture is. It's sidewalk level and collaborative or it isn't really ours.