Teaching selfishness
by digby
John Stewart and company turn Sesame Street into a Galtian paradise:
The bit is funny and pointed, of course. But it also made me just a little bit sad to think that the lesson Grover and the adorable little tyke are talking about is not considered by millions of Americans to be ---- wrong. Teaching kids to be unselfish, to share with those in need is so basic to raising decent human beings that it makes me almost unbearably sad to realize that we live in a society in which millions of people are growing up to scream "suck it up whiners" instead and yell "yeah" when someone asks if a sick man without insurance should die.
Our culture is sick. Deep inside.
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