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Smart Talk SMART TALK By Dr. Will S. Sert
HUMAN ECOLOGY: We’re happy this phrase hasn’t spread too widely. Maybe we at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired can help shame it out of existence.
During the early seventies, Earth Day 1 helped beget political correctness. In the heat of idealistic fervor, Bedspring Tech’s Home Economics Department became to Human Ecology Department. Home Ec to Hum Ec.
The Los Libidos academic community was once again comfortably smug. They had seized the magic word, ecology, and made it theirs.
But the new department name has ever since begged the question, since when are humans not part of ecology?
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