January 31, 2005

Call Out the Youth Brigades

"One in three U.S. high school students say the press ought to be more restricted, and even more say the government should approve newspaper stories before readers see them, according to a survey being released today."

Compare and contrast with 18th-century Edinburgh, where they felt that it was worth putting up with Hume's thinly-disguised atheism because free speech was seen to be necessary for a healthy and vibrant society.

1 Comments:

Blogger The Sum of All Monkeys said...

Funny, I've always thought that Americans, while undereducated, somewhat anti-intellectual and hopelessly religious, still had the best damn dogma in the world.

Now we can't even get the dogma part right.

January 31, 2005 at 8:31 PM  

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