Thought these might be your answers. Just checking. Plus, I think it's good for people to know. Great job.
That I'm boring? That I was not influenced by the great economist John Stuart Mills and his common sense approach to social economy?
Well, I was but also by Marx and Keynes and.....
ah no, like most people, my family and my religion(s)!
So at the age of 7 or 8 you were sitting with the adults and you were expected to know what was going on in the world, have an opinion, and express it.
That must have been a wonderful way to learn about things and form opinions. I can't imagine expressing my views to the adults in my family at that age. My grandmother thought everything we said was hysterical. It was so humiliating!
Not only did they listen, they listened intently. Often asking gentle questions about why we said certain things.
My dad learned on his dad's knee, and my grandfather on his dad's knee.
The male line was gentle, gentlemanly, educated and intelligent.
The female line, both of my grandmothers and their mothers and mothers-in-laws, were also educated, softspoken, iron-willed women.
My dad's mother, all 4'9" of her, was really incredible, I'll write about her sometime.
My grandfather's mother wrote a diary about moving to S. California from well-to-do New York in 1880 and the years when Pasadena (in S.Calif) was being built.
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