Comments on: Beer gardens = community

By: Art for Art’s Sake: Enjoying it « The Aesthetic Elevator

Art for Art’s Sake: Enjoying it « The Aesthetic Elevator — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:15:57 +0000

[...] despite the truth in them. We’re afraid the world is going to pass us by. We need more beer gardens in America, with sculpture in the midst of [...]

By: Daily LifeStream for 2008-09-17 | Sacramental Living

Daily LifeStream for 2008-09-17 | Sacramental Living — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:20:44 +0000

[...] Shared a link on Google Reader. Beer gardens = community [...]

By: pNielsen

pNielsen — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:29:47 +0000

Yeah, I think Watkins realized the uphill battle it would be in our culture, hence his humorous timeline which includes some of the things you mention, at least partly. Regardless, I don’t keep this blog out of realism, but idealism!

By: Tim J.

Tim J. — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:18:04 +0000

A marvelous idea, though (sadly) I’m not sure it could work in the U.S., but for a few exceptional places.

There is no myth in Germany of beer drinking being particularly wild, immoral or dangerous, as there is in the States.

I suppose it COULD work (in the abstract), with adequate security and good judgment in spotting drunks… but it would immediately be picketed by everyone from local churches to MADD members. It’s not the fact of serving alcohol, it’s the idea of it’s corrupting influence being right out in the open, rather than being hidden away in a dim saloon.

Think of the children!