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In reply to the discussion: Does this atmosphere, this feeling in the air, remind you any of the late Sixties...? [View all]School Teacher
(71 posts)No. Back then we read serious books and good literature and were interested in important ideas and the philosophical underpinnings of why things were the way they were. We had broad cultural education with a lot of History, Literature, Science and Substance. We were serious. We did serious political work without benefits of internet and cell phones. We toiled in the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti War Movement. As a working class girl I did all these things and worked my way through college and it took a long time. I never owned a car or expensive toys. I took the bus.
We didn't dress like prostitutes or have tatoos. We respected ourselves and how we spent our time. We didn't sit around drinking our way through college and spending too much while playing board games, and we were not mesmerized by sports events and banal popular culture and we had good manners. We were not selfishly focused on discovering our inner selves. Sorry about the rant, kids, but you all are going to have to wake up and stop goofing around if we are to take control of the monster our country has become.