Word: societyã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...acquaintances, conservatives are just as likely as liberals to do volunteer work, donate money to charities and give spare change to people on the street. I know many conservatives who consider it their personal duty to help the poor. They use their time, money and energy to serve society??€™s least fortunate members, and in light of these efforts, the stereotype of the heartless conservative is, at its most innocuous, the gibberish of simple ignorance. At worst, it is a deep and dishonest personal insult...
...point is larger than this. Rowse’s media reforms may not solve all of society??€™s problems, but it’s clear that they could be a crucial first step. Information is fundamental to a working democracy, and that information must come as dialogue, debate and science—not mandated law. Without reliable media coverage, we can hardly claim to know what the other problems of democracy actually are. A solipsistic media—no matter how accurate—cannot claim to give its constituents working knowledge...
...does, as mentioned above, possess the book-smarts to craft articulate and lucid answers to the questions put to him. Yet his ideas, frankly, are not that interesting. There is little reason for the intelligent viewer to sit through another discourse on the problems of our society??€™s increasing addiction to artificial realities. Consider also his shallow thoughts on language and mathematics: Words and numbers, he says, mean nothing when removed from their contexts. Only those who have been trained to recognize the ways in which they can be put together to represent ideas...
...downturn, especially in the high-flying tech sector that was supposed to continue flooding us with wealth for several more decades. Dreams of instant millions from a lucky IPO were once accepted as career plans for starry-eyed college sophomores; no more. Today, the chance to throw in society??€™s lot with the day-traders no longer appears so quite so tantalizing...
...centers around a family’s reaction to the arrival of a man who has taken on the persona and the appearance of a dog. His desperate humiliation of himself for survival is wearily mirrored by the portrait of his host family turning savage in the face of society??€™s collapse. The cinematography is stunning, though...