"gardenlen" wrote in message
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g'day kylie,

yes i had that fleeting thought of saying never, never, but found out
that we probably can never say "never". it comes under the being
flexible heading.

yeh specially painful as fuel prices rcoket ever upward and we
cringing putting fuel in out little effitient beast and they paying
near $200 to fill those giants, pretty much just to do the shopping in
and run the kids to school. no matter what the very very few of us try
it won't change the big picture and we all get to go down with the
rest of "them"

hm, i look at it differently (otherwise i'd worry far too much ;-) - those
"very very few" are becoming more numerous every day; they want to AND
they're realising they have to. and all of us who have kids are making sure
that they too can be part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
and we tell our friends, and they tell their friends, and so it goes.

i mean really - in 20 years nobody will be talking about 4wds (just as one
example), will they? the 4wd fad's already peaked & people are getting real.
things move on, and (although i do wonder sometimes) mostly for the better.

yes by not being "smart" i meant as a whole there are those dare i say
like some of us who could fit under the mantle of being smarter, but
as a whole i don't think we are smart enough.

as a whole, probably not! then again, as a whole we probably never have been
nearly as smart as our best representatives, eh. i used to think we can all
become equally smart, but i don't think that any more. i think people are
just going to be left behind because they cannot get a grip on Modern Life.
but that's another story. :-)
kylie