we have to touch people

Post #386,136 by boxley 2/4/14 4:35:07 PM Reply	we have to touch people watch the vid http://www.youtube.c...ded&v=p5Umbn6ZBuE it is an embed in this article http://opinionator.b...me&pgtype=article Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #386,145 by Another Scott 2/4/14 7:56:17 PM Reply	A great piece and a great essay. Thanks.
Post #386,190 by a6l6e6x 2/5/14 10:43:28 AM Reply	ÂThe Ascent of ManÂ was a great series on PBS. In the mid 1970's when I lived in Red Hook, NY, one night I picked up a very snowy UHF TV station (WMHT) from Schenectady some 60-70 miles away. The ÂThe Ascent of ManÂ was on and I was captured. I acquired a UHF antenna and mounted it just below the rotor holding the VHF antenna. Eventually, I became a supporter of that PBS station. ÂThe Ascent of ManÂ is Bronowski's book, but also a PBS TV series. The cited YouTube clip is the last scene of the final episode. Your public library may have the VCR tapes of ÂThe Ascent of ManÂ PBS series. Alex ÂThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.Â -- Isaac Asimov
Post #386,223 by Ashton 2/6/14 3:48:38 AM Reply	Seconded.. It was also IMO a demonstration that PBS could produce masterpieces beyond the $-rich/intelligence-filtered mass media pabulum (including drama, though Hallmark Hall of Fame was also excellent in that arena.) I doubt that anyone seeing the first episode ever missed watching any later ones. Can watch series online; it says 'free': http://topdocumentar...om/ascent-of-man/ (James Burke's Connections was similarly memorable, but style perhaps a bit slick)--lots of good stuff on in '70s --but Bronowski's was, I thought the Gold Standard. Such work as this, for many filled-in blanks omitted from school texts; maybe also made the case against Murican rote teaching, memorizing of 'facts' + dates. (Not that these examples cured any of that bad design..) .
Post #386,230 by a6l6e6x 2/6/14 9:11:55 AM Reply	Thanks for the link! Alex ÂThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.Â -- Isaac Asimov

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