This observation was originally quoted with our thanks to Vails on May 30, 2013 from a post of March 14, 2008 in which he managed to use both "stultify" and "zigurrat" in one post.
The "old days" were miserable times, filled with closed-mindedness, bigotry, unsolved murders, bad coffee, pedophilia, truly disturbing views about parenting, a glass ceiling that to us would look more like a floor, Borscht Belt comedians, cloth diapers, unchecked bullies, ass-backward schoolteaching philosophies, wife-beating, a near-total ignorance about people of other races or social sectors, abject ostracism of teenagers who don't drop out of school when they get pregnant, abject ostracism of them anyway, Tasaday-caliber medical techniques, waste dumping, chewing tobacco, corporal punishment, bad hygiene, lard, barflies, unzoned industrial development, mumps, three channels of TV, traffic lights on highways, washboards and wringers, idolatry, hate crimes, aspics, a stultifying reliance on the benevolence of big business, a willingness to ignore people when they're down unless they are a "neighbor," ziggurat-sized computers, rampant complacency, post-Brubeck jazz, segregation, rejection of breastfeeding, Victorian-residue sexual repression, polio, pabulum, polack jokes, and two-day weather forecasts.
Observations Backlog 626 - Ziggurat
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Observations Backlog 626 - Ziggurat
-- In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
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SportsFan68
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Re: Observations Backlog 626 - Ziggurat
-- In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller
-- America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking. -- Wilma Mankiller