Word: decay
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...boxes far and wide. Economic opportunity is what drew farm boys into cities, and it has been fragmenting families ever since. There is thus a tension within conservative ideology between laissez-faire economics and family values, as various people have noted. (The Unabomber complains that conservatives "whine about the decay of traditional values," yet "enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth...
...rather the outcome of imaginative endeavor by talented people, of whom there is always a limited supply. When grants prop up artists unable to attract audiences, individuals with limited abilities persist, crowding out superior talents." Should the American people be forced to underwrite cultural dependents who add to our decay and undermine our values rather than enhance our lives...
...they enjoyed watching him living out their adolescent dream of cool: playing guitar, traveling the world, doing dope. Then, as these Boomers faced up to middle age--working hard and working out, with only the occasional nostalgic joint at a Dead show--they could also see Garcia mature and decay. They were Dorian Gray, and he was the picture. His belly ballooned; his skin was looser; his hair turned a ratty touch of gray. He looked as if he existed on peanut butter and peyote buttons...
There's no doubt that all is not going swimmingly in America. On bad days, we might even concede that words like crisis and decay apply. But we shouldn't concede that all our problems are the fault of pointy-headed liberals and inner-city blacks. And we shouldn't be fooled into believing salvation can be attained without big sacrifices from other Americans. Even if it's true that mindless bureaucracy ruined the public schools and that welfare-state liberals created the underclass, the fact remains that at this point neither problem will be solved without lots of money...
Newt Gingrich has come down from the mountaintop with this pronouncement: "Either we will pull ourselves together for the effort, or we will continue to decay." That's bad news indeed. For if there's one thing Newt's new bible isn't, it's a recipe for pulling our nation together...