Rog,
RISKYBIZ9@aol.com wrote:
> Perhaps the US's excellence in almost every intellectual, technological,
> political and social realm just has "the rest of the world" envious.
I disagree on including "intellectual" on your list. True, you qualified
it with "almost", but I think there is a glaring exception. One should
distinguish between intellectual activity that serves the Giant, where
the US does excel, and intellectual activity that serves the intellect,
ie, philosophy. In that, I think the US has always been behind Europe,
and in a different way, behind the Far East (I'm thinking of the Kyoto
School). It had a chance to achieve parity with the early pragmatism,
but lost it when it got sidetracked by analytic philosophy. (Pirsig
being a rare exception).
- Scott
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