Donella Meadows Quotes
Some call-in moderators are neutral and courteous. Then there's Rush Limbaugh, who is funny and pompous and a scapegoater and hatemonger. His popularity could cause you to draw some terrible conclusions about the state of mind of the American people. It helps to remember that Bill Cosby is popular, too.
Meadows, Donella H. "Talk Radio: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." The Global Citizen, Sustainability Institute, 9 Mar. 1995.
In the Early 21st Century, the vast majority of the entertainment industry were supporters of the Democratic party. This has generally been true throughout history where entertainers have been on the left politically except in left leaning dictatorships like China and the Soviet Union where those governments tend to see entertainers as reactionaries. In general entertainers talk, sing, and dramatize about and criticize the status quo.
After Eisenhower’s successful use of TV, in 1952 and 1956, the next election—1960—had a plethora of TV ads which were mostly talking heads and in addition pundits were appearing on TV in the same format.
He was referring to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, teh President of Turkey, While had had a number of very good and successful policies, as he served in the role, he became les and less democratic until at the time of this quotation, many of the dictatorial practices common in most of he Middle Eastern nations were also operational in Turkey. At the same time Erdogan becan rolling back the nation's comittment to being a secular state, implmented of Kalal Attaturk, thich allowed Turkey to develop much mor-so than any other Muslim majority state in the world. The religious, uneducated, and rural people loved him, while the educated, secular and urban population feard Turkey was regressing to the Islamic domination that had kept all the other Muslim Nations backward while Turkey had after its secular revolution European style modernization joined the modern successful nations with a strong, developed economy, an excellent educational system, very competent in science and Engineering, a modern health system.
Donella Hager "Dana" Meadows was an American environmental scientist, educator, and writer. She is best known as lead author of the books The Limits to Growth and Thinking in Systems: a Primer.
