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Public schooling doesn't, to my knowledge, promote economic or mental health. American corporations have spent a lot of money promoting stupidity over the last
by mcantelon 17y ago
Public schooling doesn't, to my knowledge, promote economic or mental health. American corporations have spent a lot of money promoting stupidity over the last century ("Century of the Self" is a great documentary on how they did it). When you come from a milieu that doesn't think about the future and live in a society where people are encouraged not to think about the future, it's easy to end up an economic casualty.
- nazgulnarsil 17y agoactually americans constantly look towards the future much more than other societies.
- abalashov 17y agoI can corroborate that from my experience as a native-born Russian. Americans do spend an awful lot of time planning and thinking - and, at least, hypothesising - about the future. In Eastern European culture, people really do "live for today" far, far more. It is my impression that is true of many other non-Angloamerican societies as well.