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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:42 AM Original message |
Can someone explain why we have "liberal arts" yet there is no such thing as "conservative arts" |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. Oddly enough, liberal arts programs are a haven of conservatives... |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 10:18 AM Response to Reply #1 |
18. Ah, the word you are looking for is 'conservators' |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 10:27 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Right; my point was the term "liberal" in liberal arts is equally unrelated to the political term |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 12:02 PM Response to Reply #20 |
28. Let's see some support for that claim. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 12:12 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. Which claim? |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 12:12 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. Dupe |
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Search and Destroy (47 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 12:35 PM Response to Reply #28 |
36. Are you being serious? |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 12:01 PM Response to Reply #1 |
27. How do you figure conservatives love logic, e.g.? Or music? |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 12:17 PM Response to Reply #27 |
34. I mean the people who still say that kind of education is relevant are nearly all conservative |
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LooseWilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:40 PM Response to Reply #34 |
44. What do you mean 'that kind of education'?... |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 11:53 AM Response to Reply #44 |
46. "these Bloom, Bennett & Strauss" that I "speak of"? |
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LooseWilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-27-11 05:18 AM Response to Reply #46 |
49. Well, if "liberal arts" is going to be strictly defined as the study of Socrates and Plato... |
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liskddksil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
2. Lee Greenwood |
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Greybnk48 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
3. Indoctrination to maintain the status Quo of the moment. |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
4. artes liberales |
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obxhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
5. They do have conservative arts. |
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HopeHoops (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
6. A canvas that a bunch of Repukes flung their own poo at. |
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BobbyBoring (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
7. Conservative Arts= |
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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
8. Ewwww, if you have conservative arts, you end up with |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 10:19 AM Response to Reply #8 |
19. LOL!! |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:55 AM Response to Original message |
9. I think we do. It's called a 'business college'. |
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October (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 10:03 AM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Agree. /nt |
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buddysmellgood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
10. Conservative arts involves derivatives. |
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Speck Tater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
11. Art is the creation of something new. Conservatives fear anything new. nt |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 10:01 AM Response to Original message |
12. Same reason we don't have conservative thinkers |
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Bragi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 10:05 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. I'm not sure this myth is helpful |
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loyalsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 10:34 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Absolutely |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 12:08 PM Response to Reply #21 |
30. I'm way more conservative than Limpballs |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 11:35 AM Response to Reply #16 |
25. Well stated, Bragi, well stated.... |
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October (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
13. MBA = Conservative Arts /eom |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 10:05 AM Response to Original message |
15. I dunno |
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Gold Metal Flake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 10:08 AM Response to Original message |
17. Because conservatism kills. |
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meow mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 10:42 AM Response to Original message |
22. "one nation under god" |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
23. "Liberal" was not always a dirty word. |
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Ferricadouzer (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 11:00 AM Response to Original message |
24. Etch A Sketch |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
26. The "liberal" in Liberal Arts has nothing to do with politics |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:23 PM Response to Reply #26 |
42. Thank you. |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
29. Conservatives are not creative. |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
31. Steve Wright? Is that you? |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
35. Conservative Art is an oxymoron nt |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:06 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. Heh! And conservatives are just morans. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 11:53 AM Response to Reply #35 |
47. That would surprise Saul Bellow (nt) |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-26-11 12:15 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. I wouldn'r really call him a Conservative |
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firehorse (547 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:08 PM Response to Original message |
38. They already have the finance arts... |
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Nailzberg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
39. MBA programs. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:16 PM Response to Original message |
40. Eh, most conservatives aren't that talented or that |
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PurityOfEssence (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
41. liberalism is exploration and acceptance; conservatism is rote, so it would be rendering, not art |
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patrick t. cakes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 09:35 PM Response to Original message |
43. School of the Americas..... |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-25-11 10:22 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. Conservatism is about being outer-directed. |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-27-11 05:25 AM Response to Original message |
50. Country western music, obviously. And dogs playing poker. And "Atlas Shrugged." |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-27-11 05:29 AM Response to Original message |
51. conservative arts might be anything involving food preservation, for example jam-making. |
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Drew Richards (507 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-27-11 08:19 AM Response to Original message |
52. Silly Wabbit there are Conservative Arts,,,it's called WAR College |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-27-11 08:33 AM Response to Original message |
53. dupe |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-27-11 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
54. how to clear cut a forest, or dump chemicals into a river? |
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