We should ALL support free college, because a college education should be an EDUCATION.

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30. I received a substandard liberal arts education in the 80s

Not to relitigate the canon wars of the period but the wrong side won. We are culturally of the west but have not educated the elite in western history, thought, mores and customs. There is differences in cultures but we cannot articulate a defense of our culture. The Enlightenment, with egalitarian values, dignity and rights of mankind. No more fighting over religion, fought over so bitterly for thirty years ending in the Peace of Westfalia. These are western ideas and they are no longer taught.

I had to educate myself, after my so called liberal arts degree.

One cannot understand other cultures without knowing your own. This base, all cultures are the same groupthink dominates higher education, media and government. Remember the neocons thought invading Iraq would cause an outbreak in democracy and the US would be hailed as liberators? How did that work out? Did anyone look at thei Arab culture, the tribalness, the inbreeding and say, you know, this is not going to end well? No, there is this all cultures are equal monothought that first led to the murder of the canon and necessarily our repeated stupid foreign misadventures, since everyone has the same shitty psuedoeducation nowadays.