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Re: Re: Kabu,
and Tuna is the one fish I really don't want to eat.
posted by
Kabu
on December 23, 2014 at 6:30 PM
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A powerful entry, I find this to be.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on December 23, 2014 at 4:56 PM
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Well I must say life is better for most. The sad thing is expectation has risen. We now expect to have things that we could probably do without/
I have listened to old people who were happy to have food of any kind, in their day pensions were pitiful. One lady told me she gave birth to her fourth child and there was no food in the house, her neighbor brought her a herring and she cried as one of the children stood and watched her attempt to eat and share the fish.
Later on I knew one of her granddaughters, she was pretty and drove a car and had a nice house.
posted by
C_C_T
on December 23, 2014 at 7:53 AM
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Re: JimmyA,
Personally, I think it is wrong to program ideologies into children far too young to be capable of critical analysis or free choice. The way the Pledge is administered daily in school to children who don't understand what the words are, let alone what they mean, only makes the message meaningless.
It means something to adults who are making the Pledge of their own free choice, eg, when they are becoming American citizens. There should be such a ceremony for young adults when they reach the age to vote, perhaps.
posted by
Ciel
on December 23, 2014 at 7:38 AM
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You may have opened a huge can of worms there, but I do agree. There have been many occasions when I wished I could go back in time to when I was in grammar school with all of the knowledge I've amassed over the years, and challenge some of those teachings we were being force-fed in those days ( especially in the '60's ). But once you get older, and reality comes crashing in, it's a different story altogether! Perhaps the next generation will figure it all out. Perhaps . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on December 23, 2014 at 6:30 AM
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Re: Kabu,
It may not have been original, but he knew when to lay it on us! After all, who remembered it from any time before? And who remembers it since?
Food banks are full of cheap stuff no one would eat if they didn't have to. And tuna.
posted by
Ciel
on December 22, 2014 at 2:58 PM
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great Post and one that has made me sit up and take notice. And how about food stores that have boxes that you can buy items and donate to for the needy. If you look in those boxes they are full of the specials specially set out by the store to rid themselves of dead stock and people buy cheap and feel good about themselves.
I think what Jack Kennedy said way back when I was a girl was one of the best...
"ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. —John F. Kennedy". I know it wasn't original but for me it was a way for me to live my life by.
posted by
Kabu
on December 22, 2014 at 1:42 PM
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