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What are the marks of a sick culture?
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 737024:MV84NDM4ODNfMTMyMDI2MzhfQTlFQzJBQQ==] [quote:Anonymous Coward 320717] Excellent. I would add: Poor treatment of the vulnerable: elderly, children, sick, women, disabled, immigrants, homosexuals, minorities, poor, and animals. Environmental destruction. Rigid religious beliefs and stereotypes. Profit as a primary motivation. Infidelity/divorce, lack of permanent commitment [/quote] +1 - just look at some of the news various nights here on GLP: mother murders infant and eats its brains, father eats eyeballs of 5 yo son, pedophile priests & rabbis, father rapes 3 day old baby, etc.,etc.,etc. I think it may be time to hit the reset button. [/quote]
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"What are the marks of a sick culture?"
. . . abridged (by Bob God) from
Friday
by Robert A. Heinlein:
I took these quotes from one of my favorite Heinlein novels,
Friday
. They are all from a conversation between the main character and her "Boss." That conversation began with Friday's Boss asking her, "What are the marks of a sick culture?"
"It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population."
"A very bad sign. Particularism. It was once considered a Spanish vice but any country can fall sick with it. Dominance of males over females seems to be one of the symptoms."
"Before a revolution can take place, the population must loose faith in both the police and the courts."
Personal rudeness.
... and the number one symptom that we're living in a Sick Culture is -
Bad manners.
That ought to narrow it down for you!
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