On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:13:27 -0600 "Kestrel"
 writes:
> > [Was irrationally twigged out at a Father's day op-ed where the 
> man
> > condemns modern fathers working long hours to make more. Yes, 
> well,
> > clearly he's bought into the 50s fantasy family, and forgotten 
> that,
> > still within human memory, "quality time with Dad" was seeding 
> behind the
> > plow. Very few choose unnatural overtime -- and it tends NOT to be 
> for
> > avarice, but to nominally keep afloat.  But then, details muddy up 
> even
> > the most elegant of arguments....]
> 
> From a missive I wrote on a completely different subject...
> 
> "Americans have always had the tendency to look back in fondness at 
> things
> which never existed. Ward and June Cleaver were never representative 
> of the
> Great American Family..."

Or maybe they were (look at Ricky's history....)

Thanks for reposting that, it is now ferretted off to the QUOTE FILE
(you have your prairie dogs, I have my ferrets...)

Anyway, it's not just Americans -- Humans always pine for some Golden Age
that was never then, and certainly not now....

Ah well!

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