Yes:
7) Culture is out of fashion in the 90's
8) History has no meaning for people who live in tomorrow
9) The moral majority hates a naked emporer
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Mark Nielsen
Exhibit Designer/Preparator
University of Michigan Museum of Art
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On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Byron Johnson wrote:

 vyy> >Is Baltimore alone?  Has anyone else noticed this tendency in MN
and
> >other AAM publications and forums?  When I go to meetings, conferences,
> >and symposia here and around the country I have heard similar stories.
> >Why doesn't Museum News cover these issues with more perspective and
> >thought?
>
> >Matthew A. White
>
> Some simplistic answers from my 23 years in the field are:
>
> 1) No one likes to point out that the emperor has no clothes.
>
> 2) The new girlfriend always looks better than the faithful old wife.
>
> 3) Politicians build monuments to themselves rather than simply hacking their
>    predecessors' names off the old monument and replacing it with their own.
>
> 4) America usually destroys the old in favor of the new, even if the new
> doesn't work.
>
> 5) Feel good sells better than feel bad.
>
> 6) Professional journals are often window dressing to display
> accomplishments for         politicians and prospective employers, not as
> forums for debate, trials and
>    tribulations.
>
> Can anyone add to this list?
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> Byron Johnson, Director
> Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum
> P.O. Box 2570, Waco, Texas 76702-2570
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> "...Unless a people are educated and enlightened it is idle
> to expect the continuance of civil liberty or the capacity
> for self-government."
> Texas Declaration of Independence,  March 2, 1836.
>