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Originally Posted by Third Eye
I get it. You're still young and idealistic and I don't doubt your intellectualism, but care to explain how KC is better than St. Louis? Now I'm not going to try and argue the converse, but that is because as someone who has lived for a considerable amount of time in both cities, I fail to see how anyone could claim one is better than the other. They are both average cities whose significance is greatly overvalued by the people who live there.
Additionally, Wash U. IS better than about half of the Ivy League, and they have the accolades to objectively support that. Also, I'm not so sure that Hegelian philosophy was as pervasive as you seem to infer. While there was no doubt a German influence on the development of the city, the Catholic influence was always greater. It goes without saying that those two ideologies don't mesh at all.
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It's also ignorant of the fact that St. Louis is now almost an exclusively exurban city, and those who comprise a sizable chunk of the city's population are relatively recent migrants from the Deep South, who would have been in the South during that period. They are concerned far more with the institutional race issues of the city and the community.
That leaves us with the fractional Catholic communities, partially German, but also largely Italian, in composition, as being able to control the consciousness of the community for more than a century afterwards because of an incorrect interpretation of the dialectic?
Please.
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