On BBC World TV there was a report from Somalia. The devastated war ravaged country that is now beginning to try and pull itself together. Among those interviewed was a fifteen year old girl. She said, I have never been to school but I want to get an education so I can serve the community.<\/p>\n
Compare that with a LSE student, say, to take a random example. Question: Why do you want to get this degree? Answer: To be able to make a lot of money, as a consultant, or financial expert… say. Next Question: How do you think you could serve the community? Answer: What?<\/p>\n
In our ‘western’ cult of self, greed is good, Republican VP candidate Paul Ryan’s favourite book “Atlas Shrugged” by Ayn Rand<\/a>, and perhaps above all the infamous Thatcher quote: There is no such thing as society<\/em>, might we not have lost what we claim to have established once upon a time?<\/p>\n And that is Civilization.<\/p>\n On BBC World TV there was a report from Somalia. The devastated war ravaged country that is now beginning to try and pull itself together. Among those interviewed was a fifteen year old girl. She said, I have never been to school but I want to get an education so I can serve the community. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parina.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}