[nukkad] Always ask the turtle

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It's a well known fact that people who use multiple exclamation 
points are mentally unbalanced. - Terry Pratchett
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~ Always Ask the Turtle ~

Gloria Steinem, the writer and leader in the feminist
movement, once learned an important political lesson
as a student on a geology field trip. 
"I took geology because I thought it was the least
scientific of the sciences," she told an audience at
Smith College. 

"On a field trip, while everyone else was off looking
at the meandering Connecticut River, I was paying no
attention whatsoever. Instead, I had a found a giant,
GIANT turtle that had climbed out of the river,
crawled up a dirt road, and was in the mud on the
embankment of another road, seemingly about to crawl
up on it and get squashed by a car. 

"So, being a good codependent with the world, I tugged
and pushed and pulled until I managed to carry this
huge, heavy, angry snapping turtle off the embankment
and down the road. 

"I was just putting it back into the river when my
geology professor arrived and said, 'You know, that
turtle probably spent a month crawling up that dirt
road to lay its eggs in the mud by the side of the
road, and you just put it back in the river.' 

"Well, I felt terrible. But in later years, I realized
that this was the most important political lesson I
learned, one that cautioned me about the authoritarian
impulse of both left and right. 

"Always ask the turtle." 


Gloria Steinem

 




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