What made America great
Served up with your hot dogs and hamburgers this fine Independence Day, some food for thought from Edwin Locke:
Why should we celebrate the Fourth of July? Because America — as the greatest product of Western civilization — is the greatest country in the world. But it cannot remain great unless we understand the causes of its greatness.Then he gives some pretty good reasons why. Read and enjoy.In this age of diversity-worship, it is considered axiomatic that all cultures and countries are equal. Western culture, it is declared, is in no way superior to that of any other, not even to tribes of cannibals. To deny the equality of all cultures, claim the intellectuals, is to be guilty of the most heinous of intellectual sins: "ethnocentrism." It is to flout the "sacred" (and false) principle of cultural relativism. I disagree with the relativists — absolutely.
In other Independence Day news, Bob made the center color spread of his local paper, singing the national anthem in front of half a thousand locals and foreign diplomats. Go Bob!
And -- U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!
Posted by Matt at July 4, 2003 2:31 PM
