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- From: bunker@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (Alex Bunker)
- Subject: Re: WORLD GOVERNMENT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.000835.13690@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 00:08:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.204231.27166@news.unomaha.edu> trajan@cwis.unomaha.edu (Stephen McIntyre) writes:
- >gary@isis.cgd.ucar.edu writes:
- >
- >> sm> Stephen McIntyre
- >>
- >>sm> [E]ducation is the best way to help society protect itself from the
- >>sm> blatherings and blubberings of political and/or religious propaganda. It
- >>sm> would be a good tool in creating a more unified, and informed, world.
- >>
- >
- >[Gary Strand]
- >
- >gs] Under a WG, who will run the education system? The WG? If so, you should
- >gs] examine what's been happening with education in the US. If anything, too
- >gs] many citizens are becoming *more* susceptible to government propaganda.
- >gs] Read Chmosky or Chomsky-lite (ie, Harel) to see what I mean.
- >
- >Let the individual countries run their own school systems (as the
- > states do here.) Better yet, allow private enterprise to run
- > the schools.
- >
- >Citizens become more susceptable to propaganda precisely because they
- > lack a good education. With T.V. and commercial magazines doing
- > the thinking for them, people are killing off their minds,
- > strangling the very thing that could protect them from irrational
- > pinheads with a presuasive voice and power on the mind. So, what
- > can we do then? Keep T.V. from the people? Regulate the hours
- > a station can run programming? I don't know. Any suggestions?
- >
- >Stephen @Trajan
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- >>
- >> --
- >> Gary Strand Opinions stated herein are mine alone and are
- >> strandwg@ncar.ucar.edu not representative of NCAR, UCAR, or the NSF
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- simple restrict television advertising. This is ALL the restriction
- neccessary for television then. Television will become more educational
- and less commercially-consumeradvocating pander to the lowest common
- denomenator. Look the best television is on the channels without
- commercials PBS TVO BBC etc...
- I REST MY CASE
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