Transcript: Children vs. Grown-Ups on a Global Scale

ROBERT SIEGEL
All Things Considered (NPR)
07-20-2006
Children vs. Grown-Ups on a Global Scale

Host: ROBERT SIEGEL
Time 21:00-22:00 PM


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ROBERT SIEGEL, host:

Commentator Andrei Codrescu has been thinking about some of the challenges we face in life, specifically the messes we have to clean up when we become grown- ups.

ANDREI CODRESCU reporting:

At some point there are so many messes you need other grown-ups, more competent ones to clean them up. Competent grown-ups are a myth. But even assuming for a moment that they exist, their solutions to your messes is to make everything incomprehensible so that you'll feel truly helpless.

When everyone feels helpless, these non-existent ...

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