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...cave bears, a panther and no fewer than 50 woolly rhinos. Such creatures, to paraphrase Claude Lavi-Strauss, were good to think with, not good to eat. We can assume they had a symbolic value, maybe even a religious value, to those who drew them, that they supplied a framework of images in which needs, values and fears-in short, a network of social consciousness-could be expressed. But we have no idea what this framework was, and merely to call it "animistic" does not say much...
Some of the alternative political and cultural views produced through these programs threaten Republican hegemony and especially annoy the narrowminded religious right. Streisand identified the Republicans' real reason for targeting these programs for the budget axe--a reactionary desire to return the country to the conservative cultural framework of the 1950s (the era of suburban bliss when minorities and women "knew their places...
...Department of Health unveiled the Healthy People 2000 Goals, an ambitious framework of 22 programs aimed at disease prevention. One goal was to reduce the percentage of overweight Americans from 25% to 20% by the turn of the century. It was, for the Bush Administration, an unusually activist experiment in preventive medicine, with the added purpose of helping curb health costs. Now the U.S. is not only unlikely to meet that target, says Robert Kuczmarski, lead author of the big CDC study, "but it's going in the opposite direction." Just when the country needs to reduce its health-care...
...ludicrously named baby-boomers are careening into their 50s and are selecting answers to questions about morality. More importantly, they are seeking to provide a structure of morality, an authoritative framework which can begin to attempt to provide some of the answers to the eternal questions. Value systems predicated on lifestyle beliefs, cobbled together incoherently just won't suffice...
Cultural relativism rattles the self-confidence so critical to strong leadership and undermines the authority of established leaders. Challenges from constituencies all over the cultural, sexual and ethical map leave leaders confused not only about their priorities but also about their basic framework of right and wrong. How to accommodate gay rights, for example, to traditional religious beliefs...