Will American Express post my submittal to The Members Project? As expected in this age of evading the real problems (carbon offset schemes come to mind), most of the submissions seem to focus on cures rather than prevention. My submission of June 13th is "pending approval" as of a few minutes ago. Is there an approval backlog or is American Express unwilling to consider submissions that make us/them uncomfortable?
In the event that it does not make the cut, I have posted it below:
Project Liberal Arts Renaissance
EducationProject ID: 06630
Date Posted: 6/13Project Description:
We have many problems that appear to be intractable. How did we get to the point where our resource use far exceeds a sustainable pace? One answer is that our institutions of "higher learning" stopped educating students starting in the late 1800's. Instead of providing an education that leads to critical thinking and liberty (a comprehensive liberal arts education), these institutions have been certifying students and grooming them to participate in a system that is completely driven by consumption and short-term gratification rather than long-term investment and long-term health and well-being. In order to solve the many problems that we now face, we must have a liberal arts renaissance. The project would bring together seven (it's hard to come to a decision with more than seven participants) interested officials from liberal arts colleges who realize that -- to paraphrase Albert Einstein -- we will not solve our problems with the type of thinking that created the problems.
Update as of July 10, 2007: To the best of my knowledge, my submittal was never approved. MH
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