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" We interrupt our regularly scheduled Stupid to bring you the following message from the great Hendrik van Loon, author, journalist, confidant of presidents, teacher of America&amp;#039;s young people, and renowned eccentric prose stylist. This week&amp;#039;s lesson comes to us from Ancient Man, which Van Loon published in 1922. We learn that there wasn&amp;#039;t a great deal of difference between how the Egyptian deities were organized and how things work with McDonald&amp;#039;s. Neither could he imagine that such vast and powerful phenomena as a bolt of lightning or the flood of a river were mere impersonal things. Some one--somewhere--must be their master and must direct them as the engineer directs his engine or a captain steers his ship.A God-in-Chief was therefore created, like the commanding general of an army. A number of lower officers were placed at his disposal. Within their own territory each one could act independently. Of course, your regional sales guy had the head of a cat, so there was that. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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