The Consitution of the US

[sr71plt]

I would (making excuses to justify pursuing the topic) assume it to be important for editors to have a certain level of knowledge of government and economics, as sometimes we play the part of sixth-grade teachers to our writers.

Why, unless government, economics, and current affairs is what they edit?

 

[squarejohn]

I would (making excuses to justify pursuing the topic) assume it to be important for editors to have a certain level of knowledge of government and economics, as sometimes we play the part of sixth-grade teachers to our writers.

Pride is an interesting subject. The first I knew of the word was from the Bible, which says pride is to be abhorred, not favored. Granted later on in life I learned that my mother only went to church and put me in Bible school because keeping up her appearances was important to her.
Still, now that I have a more objective view on religions, faiths, and agnostisism, I take a step back to look at pride in general. What I see is a weapon people use to put each other down. Pride only serves to separate us. National pride and the ensuing patriotism end up fueling fires of war. In an extremist sense. If it's something simple like being proud of a sculpture or (more to the point) a story, that's fine. But pride can take a beating when you check the ratings on said story to find that piece of work you're so proud of got stuck at five thousand views with five votes averaging between two and three. Humility, in this sense, tends to be a better helpmeet than pride.

But it's not like there's some solution. We cry when someone dies, then we lobby for healthcare. People live longer, and the planet becomes overpopulated. We thin our numbers out with wars, and war is protested. Human nature has always been what it is, no matter what country we live in or what we believe in. Our nature is to believe we are in the best of times in the best of places because we want to believe our individual selves are special. The US just came along during a time of revolution both philosophically and technologically. Our advantage was that we started off more modern without (forgive me Englishmen) feeling it necessary to wear wigs in court and other such traditions, but the rest of the world has caught up in the last three hundred years.

If you have humility to the degree that you become proud of it...that's a real tragedy.