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few external
limitations as possible -- what children perceive to be their own best
interests.

The end product of this --reasoning-- is on display in the food court of
any shopping mall in the soon-to-be-completely-uncivilized world on any
given Saturday afternoon.

New Impossible Thing to Believe Before Breakfast:

15. Children must be allowed to raise themselves and determine for
themselves what does and does not constitute ethical, responsible
behaviour.

What is at issue, it seems to me, is the dichotomy which exists between
the masculine and feminine interpretations of --out of the mouths of
babes . . . --

To a man, this aphorism implies that --although children are unshaped
and incomplete beings until they reach the age of their majority, it is
an interesting naturally-occurring phenomenon that -- apropos nothing and
even in the earliest stages of verbal communication -- a child will, on
rare occasions, voice an observation which, in defiance of all rules of
logic, is actually germane and relevant to an adjacent conversation
taking place on a much higher plane of sentient communication.--

The feminine interpretation tends more in the direction of --. . .
because children are, indeed, from Heaven and are pure and untainted and
good and decent and true in all regards, full of pure love and joy and
compassion and innocence, their utterances, likewise, are pure and
untainted and good and decent and true in all regards and the sooner we
can all set our hearts on a quest to find the purest and least minted
and most decent six-year-old in the world and appoint him/her leader of
the civilized world and do whatever he/she tells us to do without
question, the sooner we will arrive at the utopia which is always just
there over the rainbow.--

Put another way, I think the Prophet Isaiah's well-known
prognostication, --And a childe shall lead them . . . -- is one to warm
the hearts of dim-bulb women everywhere and to chill the soul of every
God-fearing man. It als


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