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Re: More Orwell, for everyone!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:20:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Parsons wrote:
> The other thing I have long advocated is giving every Australian who completes a
> tertiary course of studies a round the world airline ticket, so that they can
> actually go to a few other and far flung countries, and see how things are
> different there. Its powerful mojo for getting people past the mindset that
> thinks that 'everyone does/should/must think like me'. And it creates a deeper
> respect for how we do things at home. There's a bunch of other cool outcomes
> too (and an increase in greenhouse gases emissions unhelpfully higher in the
> atmosphere - ahh well, precious few ideas are comepletely good).
There's also the small issue that it costs a lot of money to do that. Who is
going to pay for it?
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| (...) Oh I don't know. I'd put it somewhere around the $300m mark. I never cease to be amazed at how much money we spend on advertising programmes to alert the general public as to how nice and clever the government thinks it is, particularly with (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Mmmmm. I have long advocated that 1984 should be required reading in the last year of high school education. And the older I get, the louder I hear it echoed in the world around me. Maybe that's me, maybe its the world. The other thing I have (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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