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martin

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In 1865, the poet Walt Whitman asked:

O what shall I hang on the chamber walls?

And what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls,

To adorn the burial-house of him I love?
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I have always loved these three lines from Whitman’s elegy “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” which he wrote in the spring of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. I have been thinking about them as we mark the 249th year since the ratification of the Declaration of Independence. The lines distill an essential question that any artist and civic figure who believes American ideals are worth sustaining must ask: How shall we honor, remember and learn from our national past? And how shall we transmit essential values of the past to citizens of the future?

I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency disassemble the cultural infrastructure of the nation. These reckless and shortsighted cuts have affected our libraries and museums, our public media institutions, our local arts and humanities councils and the longstanding endowments — including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities — that have provided funding for the past 60 years. These institutions are the entities we’ve charged with hanging pictures on the national chamber walls; they were established to represent and to execute on the principle that a great country and a great civilization needs self-understanding, and that such understanding comes not from politicians or congressional allocations but from lasting works of reflection that connect past, present and future.

 
You’ll be fine Walter.

Let them compete in the public market without the government funding.

If they are worthy, they will survive…just not with the government funding them.

PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) and NPR (National Public Radio) are both public media organizations in the United States and will now have to compete to survive…without government funding.

These two groups are both far left groups with totally biased reporting.

NPR editor found registered Democrats outnumbered ...​

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Apr 9, 2024 — An NPR editor blowing the whistle on the newsroom found an 87-to-zero ratio in registered Democrats versus Republicans in its headquarters ...
 
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martin said:
In 1865, the poet Walt Whitman asked:


I have always loved these three lines from Whitman’s elegy “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” which he wrote in the spring of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. I have been thinking about them as we mark the 249th year since the ratification of the Declaration of Independence. The lines distill an essential question that any artist and civic figure who believes American ideals are worth sustaining must ask: How shall we honor, remember and learn from our national past? And how shall we transmit essential values of the past to citizens of the future?

I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency disassemble the cultural infrastructure of the nation. These reckless and shortsighted cuts have affected our libraries and museums, our public media institutions, our local arts and humanities councils and the longstanding endowments — including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities — that have provided funding for the past 60 years. These institutions are the entities we’ve charged with hanging pictures on the national chamber walls; they were established to represent and to execute on the principle that a great country and a great civilization needs self-understanding, and that such understanding comes not from politicians or congressional allocations but from lasting works of reflection that connect past, present and future.

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Watching America lose its university system has been amazing to watch. We had something that was the envy of the world, and trump has given it away.
 
Walt said:
Watching America lose its university system has been amazing to watch. We had something that was the envy of the world, and trump has given it away.
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Commies have corrupted our American Liberal education system like metastatic cancer.
It was largely OK up until the 2000s.
 
Walt said:
The brain drain is beginning to reverse itself. If things continue the direction they are going, in 10 to 20 years the USA will be a third world nation, without enough education to pull itself up.

Then who will support you?
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Bah! STFU, dumbass.
 
Walt said:
Demanding I "STFU" will not rebuild the damage that was done. And it certainly will not rebuild the damage that is about to be done. We are headed in a bad direction.
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I disagree. We are headed in the right direction.
Do you know who set up the American college system, Walter? Hmm? Who was it? Tell me some names. :pke:
 
Walt said:
Watching America lose its university system has been amazing to watch. We had something that was the envy of the world, and trump has given it away.
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Why are you such a little bitch? The "university system" isnt going anywhere you fucking demented drama queen , how it gets paid for is. Not a single one of you cockroaches has yet to explain why Harvard should get one penny of taxpayer money when they have an$50 Billion dollar endowment. Are you fucking retarded. You assholes wail about "tax cuts for the rich" but you want to give a university with $53 billion taxpayer money. Let every university compete for customers like every other fuckig business does. If you provide consumers with a good product at a good price you'll be successful. Turn out morons like the current "university system" does and people will get tired of you.
 
martin said:
In 1865, the poet Walt Whitman asked:


I have always loved these three lines from Whitman’s elegy “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” which he wrote in the spring of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. I have been thinking about them as we mark the 249th year since the ratification of the Declaration of Independence. The lines distill an essential question that any artist and civic figure who believes American ideals are worth sustaining must ask: How shall we honor, remember and learn from our national past? And how shall we transmit essential values of the past to citizens of the future?

I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency disassemble the cultural infrastructure of the nation. These reckless and shortsighted cuts have affected our libraries and museums, our public media institutions, our local arts and humanities councils and the longstanding endowments — including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities — that have provided funding for the past 60 years. These institutions are the entities we’ve charged with hanging pictures on the national chamber walls; they were established to represent and to execute on the principle that a great country and a great civilization needs self-understanding, and that such understanding comes not from politicians or congressional allocations but from lasting works of reflection that connect past, present and future.

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Beautifully expressed, Martin. Thank you.

For almost all of our existence, older nations have looked at us as being fairly uncultured, materialistic, focused only on a hedonistic existence. Like with all stereotypes, this is not completely accurate.

But now we're going to live up to this by destroying the wonderful arts and culture we have created in the last two centuries. All because of one incurious, vulgar, and abysmally stupid wannabe despot with excrable taste.
 
Matt Dillon said:
Do you know who set up the American college system, Walter? Hmm? Who was it? Tell me some names.
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The Carnegie Foundation was extremely important. It gave us the idea of credits and classes. There were lectures before, but the Carnegie Foundation forced there to be cohesive classes. A lot of the rest dispersed out from the Ivies. There was also an important step when states began creating state universities.

There are too many names to mention. It all took nearly 400 years to build, and is now being destroyed. The rest of the world has tried to build university systems like the USA, but it takes time, and a lot of effort. If a country messes up, like we are doing now, it is very difficult to come back. Germany is just now getting a good, but not great system, after giving up its fantastic system.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Beautifully expressed, Martin. Thank you.

For almost all of our existence, older nations have looked at us as being fairly uncultured, materialistic, focused only on a hedonistic existence. Like with all stereotypes, this is not completely accurate.

But now we're going to live up to this by destroying the wonderful arts and culture we have created in the last two centuries. All because of one incurious, vulgar, and abysmally stupid wannabe despot with excrable taste.
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Beautifully expressed, yourself.
 
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