tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post6337448417938129697..comments2024-03-29T10:24:20.171+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Money as the measure of cultural declineBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-74564934169262360892012-07-03T17:47:46.733+01:002012-07-03T17:47:46.733+01:00I would have expected this already to have happene...I would have expected this already to have happened, if it was going to happen.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-64076669100446579922012-07-03T16:38:45.862+01:002012-07-03T16:38:45.862+01:00What do you think about this theory Bruce?:
Moder...What do you think about this theory Bruce?:<br /><br />Modern cultural decline might lead to a point where people, en mass, are completely cut off from proper spiritual satisfaction while the desire for novelty, that modernity pushes, has reached a critical point where it rejects itself and then the combination of this, along side a large underground counter counter culturalism, explodes out--taking over the mainstream media like the left has done, and that finally this leads to the West's repentance.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10514136826452861076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-1406488403991153982011-05-20T22:29:04.145+01:002011-05-20T22:29:04.145+01:00You're waxing Nietzschean here: with a decline...You're waxing Nietzschean here: with a decline in aesthetics, architecture and art comes a decline in the design of everyday items.<br /><br />Not surprising that money was one of the last things to go, since our society adores it so much.Brett Stevenshttp://www.amerika.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-14603933103583928772011-05-20T21:55:26.684+01:002011-05-20T21:55:26.684+01:00I had no idea that merrie old England was just as ...I had no idea that merrie old England was just as far along the path to perdition as is the United States. I started losing faith in the future when U.S. postage stamps were honoring Mickey Mouse and Bart Simpson. And now we have a stamp that shows not the worthy and venerable Statue of Liberty in NY harbor, but a cheesy copy in Las Vegas. Learning this, did the post office tear them up? Of course not.EvelynMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-61465496650997610882011-05-20T12:37:40.204+01:002011-05-20T12:37:40.204+01:00" I would have thought older coins would be m..." I would have thought older coins would be more irregularly manufactured as less automation would be involved."<br /><br />Yes - you *would* have thought so, I agree: yet the contrary evidence is there for all to see!Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-9455717063372019682011-05-20T11:26:09.145+01:002011-05-20T11:26:09.145+01:00bgc,
Are you saying that in these technologically...bgc,<br /><br />Are you saying that in these technologically advanced times the England can't make a particular coin in a uniform manner? In fairness, I haven't used slot machines for a while so maybe I'm not as aware of this as I should be. I would have thought older coins would be more irregularly manufactured as less automation would be involved.S. Thompsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-51229171235532081172011-05-20T04:39:37.561+01:002011-05-20T04:39:37.561+01:00Is it that they just don't love their country?...Is it that they just don't love their country?Wurmbrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345523517796356674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-41934059615123254692011-05-19T18:01:46.237+01:002011-05-19T18:01:46.237+01:00Actually, the reorgainization and renaming of the ...Actually, the reorgainization and renaming of the counties in 1974 was certainly an early sign: my county of Somerset (capital of Anglo Saxon England, for a while) became "Avon" - which is not as bad as Clackmannanshire becoming... "Central"; Rutland disappeared. <br /><br />Worst of all, northern Yorkshiremen (proudest of all English counties?) were told that they lived in... Cleveland!<br /><br />It was the re-naming (not the new boundaries) that was so gratuitously aggressive. <br /><br />We knew then we were up against it, and that the ruling class loathed us. <br /><br />It has just taken them a while to demoralize us to the present level - which is very, very demoralized indeed.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-38993925368010070072011-05-19T16:50:21.030+01:002011-05-19T16:50:21.030+01:00What's a random semi-colon among friends? Each...What's a random semi-colon among friends? Each has his quirks: altogether too many full colons and trailing dots being mine... <br /><br />England is finished? My dear fellow, whatever leads you to such a conclusion? O.K. I get it. No need to repost your entire blog :)The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04323413604073160469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-47849074001247108362011-05-19T15:51:09.511+01:002011-05-19T15:51:09.511+01:00I had hoped that you might defend it as "ragt...I had hoped that you might defend it as "ragtime punctuation".deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-37884735272326367452011-05-19T15:28:06.398+01:002011-05-19T15:28:06.398+01:00There are lots of ways in which the 'cultural ...There are lots of ways in which the 'cultural health' of a society can be damaged. Those who have the power to alienate the residual aesthetes and make the kingdom worse, do so by asinine means. They cause meretricious money to be coined, insist that tacky postage stamps be issued, change by arbitrary fiat hallowed signs and symbols, substitute meaningless terms for comprehensible English in official documents, inflict foreign weights and measures on stupefied shoppers....alas, one could go on and on.Alexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-61576931028452290272011-05-19T10:42:02.990+01:002011-05-19T10:42:02.990+01:00@dearieme - If you are going to point-out punctuat...@dearieme - If you are going to point-out punctuation errors/ idiosyncracies on this blog, you're gonna have your work cut-out!Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-12095390059422129932011-05-19T09:33:08.319+01:002011-05-19T09:33:08.319+01:00"If money - actual coinage and notes - is any..."If money - actual coinage and notes - is any kind of measure of cultural health; then England is finished." Thank goodness that no-one takes punctuation to be a kind of measure of cultural health.deariemenoreply@blogger.com