"After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
-Nelson Mandela
My teacher in the 5th grade read us that quote once, and I remember thinking, "I'm an American. We're the most advanced country, don't we have machines to flatten those hills into flat land?"
And indeed, we liked to flatten land for a long time. Flatten it and just walk right on over. But that's just lazy, and even though my granddaddy said it takes just as much effort to flatten a hill as to walk over it, I was always skeptical.
Well, granddad (rest his soul) would be ashamed of our tendency today to simply walk around the hill. Or blame it on terrorists. Or rock music.
Jed to Earth.....terrorists haven't figured out how to drop hills yet. And neither have musicians, though they're probably pretty darn close now.
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