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Naomi Standen wrote: "I agree about the unbraining capacity of television, and its immense power, but I think you do "the masses" a disservice. While we despair at the ignorance of 18-year-olds just entering university, older people of all classes are more aware of what has happened (not least because they were there for some of it) and have had longer to think about what it means and whether it was the right thing to do. Your view of what the results of this are likely to be depends on how you view those outside the ivory towers and the intelligentsia. But I'm not trying to say everything is fine and dandy. The process I suggested has only just begun (as my qualified statements intended to show), but the fact that it CAN begin (the NZ govt giving land back to the Maoris, for instance) is, for me (a hopeless optimist), an encouragement to think about ways that the process can be improved, spread and accelerated. Since I hope I have several decades of career ahead of me, I cannot afford to take on counsels of despair just yet!" Teodoru: We are face to face with an issue parents have debated for centuries: does maturity comes only with the experiencing of responsibility ?
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