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Aug. 5th, 2007 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersThat last post of mine was so naive, I mean I wrote:
And doing something means investing. Which means taxes. And paying teachers a wage commensurate with their responsibility to the next generation.
Of course, our only responsibilty to the next generation is to saddle them with as much debt as we can manage by indulging in our desires for luxuries and fripperies. Collectively, we seem to emulate the least intelligent, sensible, and able of the Bennett sisters, talking about spending money on things they don't need, nor really want: like badly-made hats and ribbons to put on 'em.
Yeah. We don't invest anymore. The 'short now' (as Jasper fforde would have it) weighs against investment. Collectively we don't think much of our kids, and we consider our Grandchildren even less.
The Anglo-Saxon cultures have no proper concept of long-term, which is good as we don't appear to have a long-term future.
And doing something means investing. Which means taxes. And paying teachers a wage commensurate with their responsibility to the next generation.
Of course, our only responsibilty to the next generation is to saddle them with as much debt as we can manage by indulging in our desires for luxuries and fripperies. Collectively, we seem to emulate the least intelligent, sensible, and able of the Bennett sisters, talking about spending money on things they don't need, nor really want: like badly-made hats and ribbons to put on 'em.
Yeah. We don't invest anymore. The 'short now' (as Jasper fforde would have it) weighs against investment. Collectively we don't think much of our kids, and we consider our Grandchildren even less.
The Anglo-Saxon cultures have no proper concept of long-term, which is good as we don't appear to have a long-term future.
