Yves Engler-Canada vs Latin American Democracy-1of6

[mikecorbeil]

And these video-recorded presentations by Yves Engler are important and need to be made broadly known. A very important and complementary documentary, Unrepentant ..., by Christian minister Kevin Annett is also [essential] education. It can be viewed from his website, hiddenfromhistory[dot]org, which everyone should become familiar with; as well as being directly viewable at Google, where he posted or uploaded the film to.

[Marly61]

The first gentlement spent so much time addressing his point without presenting detail, examples and elements of a pursausive argument that I could not watch the rest as I don't have the time to wonder about whether he is going to elaborate on an idea on not.

[mikecorbeil]

@Marly61 Patience, Marly61, would prove to be very worthwhile in this case. I was also "put off", say, by the introductory speaker, but applying patience or tolerance turned out to make this preliminary part ok. The man, who I guess is a professor, does (eventually) state an important point and it's about common sense, a quality to acquire, develop, and cherish. It's worth sitting through this, to listen to Yves Engler; or, we can just move the slider control forward to Yves' part.

[mikecorbeil]

@Marly61 Try to avoid scrapping a book only because someone else providing a foreword doesn't say anything particularly interesting or new. The foreword is not the substance to be gained; it's only a sort of intro. In this case, the man, who (and again) I guess is a professor, didn't deliver more than simply underlining the fact that applying common sense is essential.  He used a lot of words to say so little, but if we sit through it, then it becomes even amusing, while he's also right.

[mikecorbeil]

@Marly61 The man is right, but if time is lacking, then fast forward. Use the mouse to "grab" the slider control to move it forward and past the part in which this man speaks. I ended up finding what he eventually concludes with to be definitely right, and it was amusing to witness someone using as many words as he did to basically say that common sense is essential. I just said it in four words, while it took him some minutes. Funny. A sense of humour is also good to have.