Doug Giles has a piece in Clash Daily today about the loss of cultural literacy and common knowledge among Americans. I might be an old fuddy-duddy but we need a deep, comprehensive knowledge, as American citizens, of history, the Great Books, English, political science and civic classes of all types.
A generation of individuators would need to be original thinkers, quite encyclopedic in their knowledge and retain vast amounts of knowledge of the the culture to empower them to serve as supercitizens able to run their cantons and manage the politicians that serve them.
We are headed in the wrong direction and Giles is correct in complaining about the loss of cultural literacy among American voters.
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