Comments on: Friday evening http://culbreath.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/friday-evening/ Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:44:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: ben http://culbreath.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/friday-evening/#comment-3099 ben Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:10:53 +0000 http://culbreath.wordpress.com/?p=404#comment-3099 When my 4th child was born I suspected that I was living in an environment that was not entirely in my control,when the 7th was born, I knew it for certain. When my 4th child was born I suspected that I was living in an environment that was not entirely in my control,when the 7th was born, I knew it for certain.

]]> By: Kimberly http://culbreath.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/friday-evening/#comment-3091 Kimberly Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:34:20 +0000 http://culbreath.wordpress.com/?p=404#comment-3091 Jeff: Thank you so much for your kind attention to my recent blogpost on the TLM! The links you've provided in this post are quite excellent. I've already forwarded the Jim Curley article to several male friends. As per Chris' comment, it is very reminiscent of "Wild At Heart." Eldredge is not Catholic, but he certainly writes like one...definitely worth reading! Jeff:

Thank you so much for your kind attention to my recent blogpost on the TLM! The links you’ve provided in this post are quite excellent. I’ve already forwarded the Jim Curley article to several male friends. As per Chris’ comment, it is very reminiscent of “Wild At Heart.” Eldredge is not Catholic, but he certainly writes like one…definitely worth reading!

]]> By: Chris http://culbreath.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/friday-evening/#comment-3088 Chris Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:09:45 +0000 http://culbreath.wordpress.com/?p=404#comment-3088 Not sure if Curley mentioned it in his post, but there is a wonderful book called "Wild at Heart" which makes a similar point about men needing to act outside the sphere of where things are totally in control, to take chances, etc., to be fulfilled as men --- and how much the suburbs and other aspects of modernity smother this. Written from a Christian perspective, and emphasizes that this does NOT mean "ditching one's family to follow one's dreams." Excellent read, and I bet your local library has a copy. Not sure if Curley mentioned it in his post, but there is a wonderful book called “Wild at Heart” which makes a similar point about men needing to act outside the sphere of where things are totally in control, to take chances, etc., to be fulfilled as men — and how much the suburbs and other aspects of modernity smother this. Written from a Christian perspective, and emphasizes that this does NOT mean “ditching one’s family to follow one’s dreams.” Excellent read, and I bet your local library has a copy.

]]> By: Lydia http://culbreath.wordpress.com/2008/07/26/friday-evening/#comment-3086 Lydia Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:49:51 +0000 http://culbreath.wordpress.com/?p=404#comment-3086 Don't forget that the assumed intellectual level of the audience for _city_ papers was also much higher 50 years ago than it is today. The changes in educational philosophy and the dumbing down of schools constitute a brain drain all their own, and due to the widespread acceptance of public schooling in the U.S. (more widely accepted even 30 years ago than today, when there are more alternatives), the virus spread like a plague. We could even start with the replacement of phonics with non-phonics-based reading methods in the school, which dumbed down generations all by itself. (And not to be nasty, but Jim Curley has a misplaced apostrophe in the quotation at the beginning of the entry.) I'm not at all sure that the brain-drain is more from country to city than it is from the country as a whole to...nowhere. The education is just gone. Not happening. Don’t forget that the assumed intellectual level of the audience for _city_ papers was also much higher 50 years ago than it is today. The changes in educational philosophy and the dumbing down of schools constitute a brain drain all their own, and due to the widespread acceptance of public schooling in the U.S. (more widely accepted even 30 years ago than today, when there are more alternatives), the virus spread like a plague. We could even start with the replacement of phonics with non-phonics-based reading methods in the school, which dumbed down generations all by itself. (And not to be nasty, but Jim Curley has a misplaced apostrophe in the quotation at the beginning of the entry.)

I’m not at all sure that the brain-drain is more from country to city than it is from the country as a whole to…nowhere. The education is just gone. Not happening.

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