I find this article to be both accurate and alarming. A culture can only survive when the participants are contributing to that culture. When the flexible appease the inflexible to their own demise they are done. The whole world must look at this example and ask themselves, is this is the way we want to go down.
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I find this article to be both accurate and alarming. A culture can only survive when the participants are contributing...
Sean
May 20, 2007 00:12
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Mark Bogaers
May 9, 2007 07:53
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Sep 5, 2007 07:26
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