Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for April 10, 1998
Transcript:
Val: Because I said so, That's why. Holly: You know, Mom, you shouldn't be so auto cratic. I mean this policy of absolutism is really outdated. In the next millennium the power elite and despots of the world will have to learn to facilitateperformance through group process and democracy. Val: My daughter just called me a despot. Gramma; After what I heard at the mass yeseterday, I think you should count your blessings, Dear.
Well, it’s 21 years into the “next millenium”. The despots of the world are not anywhere close to learning those things.