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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Tue, Dec 30 2003
Didn't You Just Know?
Anthropologists looking back at our news headlines will one day be able to see how dysfunctional our society has been at times, with a familiar cycle of abuser attacking victim and victim taking blame and then learning to identify and blame the abuser, who first blames the victim and then blames a third party, who then shuns both victim and abuser in shame, and then becomes both victim and abuser. The part that will make the anthropologists smile as they look back on the issues of today will be that one little additional headline that seems to follow most every other issue. Take the current issue of Mad Cow Disease as an example. This list of headlines at USA Today's web site fairly well says it all:
Disease Related To Mad Cow In Focus
Infected Cow Older
Beef Recall In USA Widens
Cattle Prices Socked Again
Japan Stays Firm On U.S. Ban
Mad Cow Boosts Some Stocks
Official: Cow From Canada
And finally, the one we all knew was coming:
Congress Eyes Bill
posted at: 07:50 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
Anthropologists looking back at our news headlines will one day be able to see how dysfunctional our society has been at times, with a familiar cycle of abuser attacking victim and victim taking blame and then learning to identify and blame the abuser, who first blames the victim and then blames a third party, who then shuns both victim and abuser in shame, and then becomes both victim and abuser. The part that will make the anthropologists smile as they look back on the issues of today will be that one little additional headline that seems to follow most every other issue. Take the current issue of Mad Cow Disease as an example. This list of headlines at USA Today's web site fairly well says it all:
Disease Related To Mad Cow In Focus
Infected Cow Older
Beef Recall In USA Widens
Cattle Prices Socked Again
Japan Stays Firm On U.S. Ban
Mad Cow Boosts Some Stocks
Official: Cow From Canada
And finally, the one we all knew was coming:
Congress Eyes Bill
posted at: 07:50 | category: /Miscellaneous | link to this entry
