Maggie's Farm

The left is caught in another terrible short sighted mistake. For forty years they have encouraged women (all colors) to have fewer children. Life is good with fewer kids. But, now there is a little problem to all of that:
1. you cannot sustain "GROWTH", which our economic reality is based upon, unless you have a growing population base.
2. You cannot sustain our democratic effort to maintain equilibrium among the races if only white women are refraining from having children. The new world picture with a very small "white" population is not what the 'agents of change' foresaw. Their expectation was that women of all colors would have fewer children--not just white women.

We're going to have a SALON

In 1998, the idea of having A Salon was a big deal among the literati, the agents of change, etc. Of course, the idea was not new--it has been a fashionable idea during many historical eras, but it came around once again in the late 1990's. Of course A Salon requires certain polite guidelines to succeed:
1. treating each person with respect in spite of their opinion
2. debating with appropriate rhetorical techniques (too hard to master for most of the "new intellects".
3. assumption of "informed opinion" is that the speaker is using factual information to debate.
4. who, or how, does the bill get paid? Do you invite an informed speaker? Then what happens to the equality amongst members format? Salons fail as they always do when members stop seeking truth and rage replaces reasoned exchange as the acceptable guideline for conversation. Rather than climate change I would propose that RAGE is the greatest evil we confront today. It deadens the exchange of ideas and causes conversations to fail, i.e. SALON.
BTW if you Google SALON Media you will find that on several occasions recently members of presented their arguments in favor of pedophilia. What is it with that generation? Why must they always feel that their unique self should "Shock the world"? When did "thinking outside of the box" become a mandate to "shock"?

I agree. However, the first step is not to appoint Who shall change it, or re-design it. Rather the first step is to acknowledge this reality and then decide what value system will be in place while we make the necessary changes. Can't do that with folks whose value system changes with every new bumper sticker.