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Words to live by...

"How beautiful it is to do nothing, and to rest afterward."

[Spanish Proverb]

Ius luxuriae publice datum est

(The right to looseness has been officially given)

"Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders," wrote Ludwig von Mises, "no one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way for himself if society is sweeping towards destruction. Therefore everyone, in his own interest, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle."

Apparently, the crossword puzzle that disappeared from the blog, came back.


Thursday, February 23, 2012

Trapped in suburbia


When I was growing up, this song appealed to me. I remember it every time I drive up to Biloxi. On the way up, as I ride along the Florida state toll road 429, I pass by a housing development where every house looks exactly the same, all with swimming pools inside identical mansard cages (screen enclosures). The same orangish roof on each one, the same off-white/cream color painted exteriors, the same "zero lot line" yard. And I wonder...



Here's the words, sing along if you want...

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,1
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses
All went to the university,
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry,
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same.

And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

2 comments:

Pearl said...

I'd not heard this one.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.  :-)

Pearl

Douglas4517 said...

 It was after your Dad's favored music years and was the "folk" genre so I think you'd have missed it. Besides, you hadn't even been born when it first made the rounds. When I first heard it, I thought of suburbia on Long Island...