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How is the Symposium? What range of views is there?

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Court likens it to Reconstruction and the Confederacy of Delos, under Pericles. Stone saw a pattern similar to what led to 1861 and thought violence would escalate and concludes with “a law that does not have the respect of the people subject to it cannot be enforced.” Mrs. Benagh’s starting point is Faulkner’s comment on the subject that the South was “in labor.” She then lists a few things that have shaped the South’s character. She takes aim at “social indoctrination now popular with educationists”, the importance of the home in a child’s education, the idolization of “an industrialized, absolutely egalitarian democracy”, and she mentions “The most widely published version of the American dream is that of a "homogeny" of men and women who have so subordinated any such distinctions as race, religion, color, tradition, and the like, that these will offer no hindrance to the spirit of community lubricating the culture of "technocracy." For the achievement of this, confidence is placed in a consolidated and efficient educational system, one that will enable the society to make the best possible use of the citizens it produces.” The range? All pretty much on the same side, but come at it from differnet angles.

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