Please

Please

Please

Don't tell me that the world is made up of individuals and that there are no social forces,

no cultural forces, no ideologies..

And don't try to deny that the American ideology is miserably limiting...

I just spoke to a guy who runs a cultural center--a kind of "private club".

I.e., you get as much culture as you can pay for...

In his defense, if the membership fee is low, it could be something of a public entity...

But the very idea of a private club for culture is problematic.

Culture should be for everyone. If not, then you don't have culture. You have elitist in-breeding.

As I said to the well-meaning individual who operates a private club for culture: say what you will about Eastern Europe and Communism or Socialism or whatever you want to call it: they were right about one thing--every community, every neighborhood should have a cultural center, place where people could go because they were living in that community---not a fee-based club.....

And the communists were right in another way: they provided public transportation.....