Overheard in the Pit
At lunch in the Pit today, I overheard a conversation between two students - a young man and a young woman. He had a laptop and was looking at political sites, and they were having a very interesting discussion about the election.
I was trying not to eavesdrop, so I only caught occasional glimpses of what they were saying. What first caught my attention was that I heard the young man say “chagrined” - which as an English major I think is a really fun word and one used all too infrequently these days - but here are select soundbites that I could hear:
“liberal and conservative blogs”
“how does the French socialist system work with such high taxes?”
“Democracy can exist with social responsibility!”
“nationalization of finance”
“rugged capitalism”
“Lehman brothers and the regulations of the 1990s”
At least for this pair of students, they were really chewing on some weighty issues. It made me smile to think about these two folks really debating the issues and trying to understand what has become a very complex political and economic landscape.
It made me very proud to hear them.