Honestly, I just got tired of writing, and I didn't know how to end the thing, and I remembered that old song lyric, and it seemed to fit... so I took the easy & cowardly way out -- I plagiarized pop culture so it would sound like I really had an opinion, even if it wasn't a profound one. :-/
But, to answer your question, it looks to me like she'd do a much better job than any of the folks who are in charge of things at the moment. It's just a shame that she has to grow up and be 'ruined' by our cutthroat culture, but it's a blessing that she'll have a part in changing things for the better... even if it's only during the years before she 'grows up'.
We can learn a lot from kids, I have no doubt.... Einstein once said something like that his greatest gift was the stubbornness to continually ask the questions that only children ask. Too bad that most of us have been convinced that it's our job to begin corrupting kids from the moment that they are born.
"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs." -- Eric Berne
"From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful." -- R.D. Laing
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Honestly, I just got tired of writing, and I didn't know how to end the thing, and I remembered that old song lyric, and it seemed to fit... so I took the easy & cowardly way out -- I plagiarized pop culture so it would sound like I really had an opinion, even if it wasn't a profound one. :-/
But, to answer your question, it looks to me like she'd do a much better job than any of the folks who are in charge of things at the moment. It's just a shame that she has to grow up and be 'ruined' by our cutthroat culture, but it's a blessing that she'll have a part in changing things for the better... even if it's only during the years before she 'grows up'.
We can learn a lot from kids, I have no doubt.... Einstein once said something like that his greatest gift was the stubbornness to continually ask the questions that only children ask. Too bad that most of us have been convinced that it's our job to begin corrupting kids from the moment that they are born.
"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs." -- Eric Berne
"From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful." -- R.D. Laing