One Thing I Had Learned From Watching

I Am Living In The Africa I Have Always Longed For, Always Felt Stirring In My Blood.

If We Allow The Destruction Of The Environment, We Can See The Terrorists Have Utterly Won, And Are Destroying The Future Of Our Children And Grandchildren. We Must Not Let That Happen.

Maternal Behavior Helps When You Have To Be Patient With Nonverbal Creatures.

So Long As We Continued To Attach More Importance To Our Own Narrow Group Membership Than To The 'global Village' We Would Propagate Prejudice And Ignorance. There Was Absolutely No Harm In Being Part Of A Small Group - Indeed, With Our Hunter-gatherer Band Mentality It Gave Comfort, Provided Us With An Inner Circle Of Friends Who Could Be Utterly Trusted, Who Were Absolutely Reliable. It Helped Give Us Peace Of Mind. The Danger Came Only From Drawing That Sharp Line, Digging That Ditch, Laying That Minefield, Between Our Own Group And Any Other Group That Thought Differently.

....i Understood Why Those Who Had Lived Through War Or Economic Disasters, And Who Had Built For Themselves A Good Life And A High Standard Of Living, Were Rightly Proud To Be Able To Provide For Their Children Those Things Which They Themselves Had Not Had. And Why Their Children, Inevitably, Took Those Things For Granted. It Meant That New Values And New Expectations Had Crept Into Our Societies Along With New Standards Of Living. Hence The Materialistic And Often Greedy And Selfish Lifestyle Of So Many Young People In The Western World, Especially In The United States.