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Civilizations tend to start talking with the dead when they become mature products--that is, when they have realized whatever dreams formed them in the first place and start to plateau. First, they begin to live in the past. Then, as Satchel Paige warned, whatever was behind them is suddenly in front of them, and a rookie competing civilization (see Goths, Vandals or Americans) takes over. This may be what is happening to us, though it is odd to think of a civilization based in a perpetual future turning around and shifting gears. Maybe we are looking backward because...
...once told Erik that "while some girls dream of a big house with a white picket fence, my dream is to lead a life that is extraordinary, never ordinary." Shortly after uttering those words, she found herself climbing past howling monkeys in Africa to reach a 12,000-ft. plateau on Mount Kilimanjaro, where she and Erik wed in the summer...
...Last year, we reached a plateau because it was straightforward, just find the point source [of contamination] and the sediments," Robert Zimmerman, executive director of the Charles River Watershed Association said...
...Heartbreak Hill is really impressive and really long,” he said. “You think you’re going to make it because in the middle of it there’s a plateau, but then there’s another half mile of hill behind that...
...Well, it looks like what looked like a bottoming out of consumer confidence in March may have been a plateau. With announced layoffs reaching record levels in March - at the pace of some 7,000 per business day - and with the markets still in trouble, we may be finding out that consumer confidence has yet to stop falling...