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America's Education System Has Become Less A Ladder Of Opportunity Than A Structure To Transmit Inequity From One Generation To The Next.

The Trails Are A Reminder Of Our Insignificance. We Come And Go, But Nature Is Forever. It Puts Us In Our Place, Underscoring That We Are Not Lords Of The Universe But Components Of It...so When The World Seems To Be Falling Apart, When We Humans Seem To Be Creating Messes Everywhere We Turn, Maybe It's Time To Rejuvenate In The Cathedral Of The Wilderness - And There, Away From Humanity, Rediscover Our Own Humanity.

One Of The Great Failings Of The American Education System (in Our View) Is That Young People Can Graduate From University Without Any Understanding Of Poverty At Home Or Abroad.

Our National Leaders Tend To Try To Protect The National Interest As They See It. They May Screw Up In That, But They At Least See That As Their Role. In Contrast, Where Issues Of Our National Values Are Involved, Which Covers Pretty Much Any Humanitarian Issue, They Pretty Much Drop The Ball.

When Anesthesia Was Developed, It Was For Many Decades Routinely Withheld From Women Giving Birth, Since Women Were "supposed" To Suffer. One Of The Few Societies To Take A Contrary View Was The Huichol Tribe In Mexico. The Huichol Believed That The Pain Of Childbirth Should Be Shared, So The Mother Would Hold On To A String Tied To Her Husband's Testicles. With Each Painful Contraction, She Would Give The String A Yank So That The Man Could Share The Burden. Surely If Such A Mechanism Were More Widespread, Injuries In Childbirth Would Garner More Attention.