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LIVE AND LEARN
Too many Americans in not responding effectively to all that they see
and hear; instead spend much of their energies in one or more of five major enterprises.
- We struggle to grow up, usually with imperfect success, thanks in large part to our school system and it's divorce from realities.
Most remain children in many respects, still unable to live our own lives.
- We scheme, for wealth or power or fame, according to tradition; thus becoming dull grubbers whose only respite from the office
grind is gained through liquor, chorus girls, and flapdoodle entertainment. Inner growth never occurs.
- As parents, we revel in dictating to our children's morals and careers; or, as husbands, we neglect wives; or, as wives, we
neglect husbands. Between dictating and total neglect, we can find no sane middle ground; and the result is reflected in the younger generation and the divorce rate.
- We try to dictate other's morals and affairs thus produce complete confusion in many matters these days.
- Struggle to keep up with the Jones, to conform in every detail, thus obliterating the last faint trace of our own personalities.
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