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Articles Posted in August 2004

 

The Peter Pan Establishment'

(30Aug04 ) This is one of the best pieces on the Frankfurt School yet. In ' The Peter Pan Establishment' Melanie Phillips of The Daily Mail observes…. “The sixties set in train changes in British society which can be said to have transformed it into a different country altogether— and one which has not altogether advanced the cause of civilization”.

“Who would have imagined that in 2004, Britain would have a ruling class heavily influenced by people who have never grown out of their sixties' morality-busting radicalism and are even now, in their respectable middle age, busy translating it into official policy?”.

“The astounding thing about the sixties cultural revolution is that, although its casualties are all around us in lonely, depressed adults and abandoned children, it is still running its destructive course. Those who were in its vanguard are still driving it on. They appear to have learned nothing.”

The Olympics Represent the Best of Western Civilization

(13Aug04 ) "The Olympic Games could only have been born (and reborn) in a culture that venerates individual human achievement and this-worldly success. The return of the Olympic Games to the country of their birth is an appropriate reminder of their deeper meaning. The Ancient Greeks founded the games because they valued the spectacle of a great athlete striving for victory. But the veneration of athletic achievement is not a quality one finds in all human cultures. " The Olympics Represent the Best of Western Civilization By Andrew Bernstein of The Ayn Rand Institute.

A Return to Childhood

(13Aug04 ) A Return to Childhood -The new immaturity. "I would never have imagined that journalists, academics, actors, artists, and the intelligentsia in general would have so opposed the end of dictatorship and promotion of democracy abroad." writes Victor Davis Hanson in the nationalreview.com on 6 August 04,

Jim's Kokoda Trek trip.

(14Nov04 ) Jim's Kokoda Trek trip. You don't need to have have 'Powerpoint' in order to watch this presentation-you can go to this Microsoft site to download a FREE Powerpoint Viewer to install on your computer to keep and use to enjoy this and any other powerpoint presentation.

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