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On Friday, Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. Carl Coon will speak about his recently released book, Culture Wars and the Global Village, as part of a new RAAC series at the Rappahannock County Library. The evening will focus on an informal discussion of how former Ambassador Coon's experience as a diplomat has shaped his unique ideas about the status of the world today.
The following article is an introduction to the book and its central thesis. Concerning Culture
"Once upon a time there was a duck named David. He was a wild duck and belonged to the Terpsichore flock, which migrated each year between the Arctic lands of northern Alaska and the subtropics.
You must realize that every species of wild duck prides itself on its distinctive plumage and considers itself superior to all other kinds of ducks. And within each species, each flock considers that it alone represents the highest rung on the ladder of duckdom.
In order to show how special it is, each flock has its own ways of doing some things that all ducks do, more or less—but that the particular flock in question does best of all.
This phenomenon is known as duck culture.
This is how my story, "David the Duck,” begins. I wrote it about fourteen years ago and dedicated it to my grandson David when he was
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