For weeks on end, legions of baby boomer journalists, psychologists, talk show hosts, radio hosts and virtually any non Gen X'er who felt confident enough to exercise an opinion went into overdrive with unrelenting commentary on how we (Gen X'ers) were "troubled" "angry" tragic" and supposedly mired in all sorts of misfortune.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome direction, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
(Williams 2009) I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome direction, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
"I know of no safe depository for the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion" -- Thomas Jefferson 1820.
Jefferson wrote: "I know of no safe repository of the ultimate powers of our society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education".
Across Asia the ITUC has accounts of the bullying wrought on workers who are desperate enough to exercise their right to form a union - and as a result they are sacked.
Heller suggests that many local authorities are too big to permit the relationships and monitoring on which Ark insists, and may lack high enough expectations, although listening to her describe the Ark model I found myself wondering whether many councils would be brave enough to exercise such extensive influence at a time when they are being publicly demonised for bureaucratic control.
Frankly, the biggest mistake I see people making is not considering bankruptcy early enough to exercise their legal right to get a fresh financial start.
"How different history might have been," he speculates, "if Lansdale or a Lansdale-like figure had remained close enough to Diem to exercise a benign influence and offset the paranoid counsel of his brother".
But even that may not be enough to make exercise less of a chore for regular folk.
