......To use practical culture and outdoor sports as an entre' to the foreign world, for Americans, of culture, value, diversity and civility---and literature.
For starters, practical culture and outdoor sports HAVE (or had) lots of culture. It's been severely neglected the past 20 years in favor of shopping and consumerism and corporatism. Thus many of these activities have been in effect hollowed out. Time for a change.
In the media anyway.
Out where the people are there's always culture. But we're losing people fast, they're being replaced by shoppers. Stepfordism rules!
Hemingway did this same OYB mission via Esquire and the outdoor sports back in the 50's. It's time once again...
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