Hand-wringing About American Culture
Hand-wringing About American Culture - Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?: —New York Times
…she first got the idea for this book back in 2001, on 9/11.
Walking home to her Upper East Side apartment, she said, overwhelmed and confused, she stopped at a bar. As she sipped her bloody mary, she quietly listened to two men, neatly dressed in suits. For a second she thought they were going to compare that day’s horrifying attack to the Japanese bombing in 1941 that blew America into World War II:
‘This is just like Pearl Harbor,’ one of the men said.
The other asked, ‘What is Pearl Harbor?’
‘That was when the Vietnamese dropped bombs in a harbor, and it started the Vietnam War,’ the first man replied.”
That’s chilling.
(Via Digg.)
