After all, how could an entire
culture of people possibly violate our cherished assumptions and eat creams and cheeses and butters and breads and wines and chocolates every day and not be as overweight as we are — who eat low fat, low carb, «cheese food,» substitute egg, zero calorie everything?
Not exact matches
But they risk everything — their national character and their capacity to succor the downtrodden — by permitting uncontrolled mass migration
of peoples who know nothing
of their
culture, in such huge numbers and at such speed that they can not
possibly be assimilated and integrated into this or any future generation.
He says, «be encouraged to take the chance and learn something new today, do not be afraid to go against the main stream and actually be prepared to work, embrace different
cultures,
people and encourage diversity, do something for other
people, do not just think
of yourself, be proud
of what you could
possibly achieve, have a goal and strive to achieve it, be kind to others, you do not know what baggage they are carrying...» Read More.
He states, «Be encouraged to take the chance and learn something new today, do not be afraid to go against the mainstream and actually be prepared to work, embrace different
cultures,
people and encourage diversity, do something for other
people, do not just think
of yourself, be proud
of what you could
possibly achieve, have a goal and strive to achieve it, be kind to others, you do not know what baggage they are carrying...»
He has argued that failed banks should not be bailed out, Lehman's collapse was not a disaster, AIG should be declared bankrupt, that naked short selling is not a problem, that backdating isn't so bad, insider trading should be legal, many corporate CEOs are underpaid, global solutions are worse than local solutions, Warren Buffett is overrated, Michael Milken is a great American, the collapse
of the hedge fund was not a scandal, hedge funds are over-regulated, education is overrated by the educated, bonuses at successful Wall Street's firms are deserved and
possibly undersized, management buyouts are boons to the economy, Enron's management was victimized by an over-zealous prosecution, Sarbanes - Oxley should be repealed, corporate compliance
culture is a disaster, shareholder democracy is overrated, hostile takeovers ought to be revived, the market is permanently moving away from public ownership
of equity in corporations, private partnerships are on the rise, public ignorance is encouraged and manipulated by governments and corporations, experts overrate expertise, regulatory agencies are controlled by the businesses they supposedly regulate and Wall Street is much more fun than
people give it credit for.
Over the following decades, Benchley turned into one
of the greatest defenders
of sharks and advocate for the oceans,
possibly - on some level - out
of guilt, seeing how his fiction work embedded so deeply into popular
culture the image
of the shark as an «enemy»
of the
people that must be killed.