Tuesday, November 02, 2010

Two for Election Day

Election day — Reflecting on our failures
Dave Cohen, Decline of the Empire
Let's not fool ourselves. There is a considerable challenge in making the best of a bad situation, for what is required is a serious, wide-reaching revival of American families, communities and old-fashioned Christian charity. Americans will have to take care of each other in the absence of a benevolent government.

A culture of dependence
Before civilization culture, children were dependent on their parents for a period of about ten years, during which, following the model of most wild creatures, they spent most of their waking lives learning to be independent, through play.

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