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Margaret Mead(1901 – 1978) An American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night. Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible. |