An Education, Other Than Purely Professional Or Technical, Can Even Seem To Be An Impediment.
There Are Big Questions About The Sort Of Skills You Need In Modern Government Today. You Put Politicians In Charge Of Billions Of Dollars With Absolutely No Training And Very Little Support System Around Them. It's An Extraordinary Thing.
Tenacious D Loves Auntie Em's. Her Delicious Nutrients Are Always Energizing And Indie-fresh. Where Does She Find Those Unbelievable Recipes? Somewhere Over The Rainbow?
The First Amendment Provides The Only Kind Of Security System That Can Preserve A Free Government - One That Leaves The Way Wide Open For People To Favor, Discuss, Advocate, Or Incite Causes And Doctrines However Obnoxious And Antagonistic Such Views May Be To The Rest Of Us.
We Will Instead Have To Measure Our Economy By The Health Of The Ecosystems And Human Communities Where We Do Our Work.
The "developed" Nations Had Given To The "free Market" The Status Of A God, And Were Sacrificing To It Their Farmers, Farmlands, And Communities, Their Forests, Wetlands, And Prairies, Their Ecosystems And Watersheds. They Had Accepted Universal Pollution And Global Warming As Normal Costs Of Doing Business.
You Can't Live Entirely Alone. You Have To Have Some Kind Of A Support System.
The Captains Of Industry Have Always Counseled The Rest Of Us "to Be Realistic." Let Us, Therefore, Be Realistic. Is It Realistic To Assume That The Present Economy Would Be Just Fine If Only It Would Stop Poisoning The Air And Water, Or If Only It Would Stop Soil Erosion, Or If Only It Would Stop Degrading Watersheds And Forest Ecosystems, Or If Only It Would Stop Seducing Children, Or If Only It Would Stop Buying Politicians, Or If Only It Would Give Women And Favored Minorities An Equitable Share Of The Loot?
