I sent along some final thoughts to the editor of the business magazine for the American Chamber of Commerce in Georgia, Molly Curso. Here they are.
Final Thoughts
First, I would like to qualify my previous answer to question #2. I said markets were necessary for the middle class. I would add that free markets are best. [...]
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Last week I posted my responses to three questions asked by the editor of a business magazine put out by the American Chamber of Commerce in Georgia (the country). Here is my response to her final question.
(4) Is there such a thing as the mentality of the middle class? There is the idea that the [...]
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Here is the third question posed to me by the editor of the business magazine Investor.ge, put out by the American Chamber of Commerce in Georgia.
(3) Why is it (the middle class) important? Can we say it is more important economically than socially or does it play an important role in both spheres? What is [...]
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I recently got a request for an interview by the editor of a business magazine, Investor.ge. The magazine is produced by the American Chamber of Commerce in Georgia (the country). For those aware of recent events on The Middle Class Forum this is quite ironic. There is a recent commenter out there rolling his eyes [...]
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We have devalued our belonging to people and place as our allegiance to paternal sources has grown. These allegiances include political parties, corporations and interest groups. We trust in these paternal sources, particularly as represented by corporate media and think tanks, while skeptical of human nature. This reverses where the “innocent until proven guilty” focus [...]
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I have picked on “free market libertarian” information providers more than any others, more than “liberal” information providers and, for that matter, more than “conservative” information providers. Since people tend to lump in “conservative” and “free market libertarian” together one might assume a liberal bias on my part. Let me first concede that I do [...]
As a former teacher I have been well-indoctrinated with the concept of teachable moments. Recent exchanges on this forum presented the possibility of two different teachable moments. Blogging is often an impulsive activity. On an impulse I picked the wrong teachable moment.
I attempted to goad a future exchange that would uncover further the literal meanings [...]
There is a new feature on The Middle Class Forum, the Social Values Survey. It is one of the Forums and Feedback items. My eventual plans call for administering this to small social groups throughout the country, as well as with the large “social group” represented by the Internet.
My “beta-testers” to date were twenty people [...]
What we believe and how we behave forms middle class culture. Over the course of my lifetime we have become a culture more engaged by interest groups than by our communities. To thrive in the setting of community you have to be willing to harmonize diverse beliefs and behaviors. To thrive with an interest group [...]
Available from the Products and Services feature (right hand side of page) is a bookmark in pdf form that states 10 principles of misinformation. The first one relates to a topic recently discussed, that we are misinformed on what is natural or normative.
In Systems out of Balance I report on a version of the Travelers [...]
