Well Jolly Roger. I love New York and enjoyed Canada.
The point should be made that Germaine Greer lives and
has worked in Tulsa for years. I kiss the ground every time
I get off the plane from the narrow focused fundamentalism
of my home state and I graduated from the school where
Greer now teaches. I wouldn't imagine that anyone who
enjoys that conservative atmosphere could stand the
multiplicities of New York. To many of us that is liberating.
REH
john courtneidge wrote:
> Dear Friends
>
> I snip, then comment below.
> ----------
> >From: Melanie Milanich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: Germaine Greer on N.Y. and Ottawa
> >Date: Wed, Sep 29, 1999, 2:02 pm
> >
>
> >Melanie Milanich wrote:
> >
> >> The Globe and Mail, Saturday Sept. 25, 1999, p. D2
> >> Dreary as Ottawa was, it was in the end a better place than New York
> >> by Germaine Greer
>
> <snip>
>
> >> Though I love New York, I disapprove of it. Dreary as Ottawa was, it
> >> was in the end a better place than New York. Canadians believe that
> >> happiness is living in a just society; they will not sing the Yankee
> >> song that capitalism is happiness, capitalism is freedom. Canadians have
> >> a lively sense of decency and human dignity. Though no Canadian can
> >> afford freshly squeezed orange juice, every Canddian can have juice made
> >> from concentrate. Thae lack of luxury is meant to coincide with the
> >> absence of misery. It doesn't work altogether, but the idea is worth
> >> defending.
> >>
> >> **********
> >> It's flattering that Germaine Greer sees more dignity and social justice
> >> in Canadian society..but along comes the new right and the Harris
> >> government rushing blindly to push us into the same thing
> >
> -------
>
> I worked in Ottawa for two years and love it to pieces.
>
> One ?significant? comparison between the US and Canada lies inthe
> Constitutions:
>
> * The US focus on "Life, liberty and the pusuit of happiness."
>
> As compared to:
>
> * The Canadian focus on "Peace, order and good government."
>
> The former is the personal agenda, the second relates to our social needs
> (I've an essay about this, but i know that I speak and post too much
> already.)
>
> Whether this comparison over-rides (or perhaps? underpins)
> action-in-legislation I don't know, but the culture of the two countries is
> as marked as might be (perhaps the results of different banking
> systems/ethoses - is the plural of ethos ethoses?)
>
> Dance well, friends,
>
> j
>
> ***********************
