A Travels of Mandeville fan are we? If so, well done you.
I must say I enjoyed this, but not in a good way. Great prose and content, I just found it rather sad. You boys & girls born in this century have had an awful hand dealt to you. My child's a good decade + older than you and I think she got in just under the wire. She got to be a child which, in part, means no politics. Childhood 's when we learn. History. What government is, what it does, and an exam at the end.
Once getting one's sorry ass drafted and shipped to Viet Nam ceased to be an issue, kids in high school didn't particularly notice politics for a long time. Then, in college, voting age attained, most people noticed elections, some got "political" and nobody lost friends or sleep.
Not a Travels of Manderville fan, my username is a reference to an obscure, perhaps apocryphal tidbit. I am glad you liked the piece (even if it made you sad). I see the bright side. My generation will be the one to rebuild and create.
A Travels of Mandeville fan are we? If so, well done you.
I must say I enjoyed this, but not in a good way. Great prose and content, I just found it rather sad. You boys & girls born in this century have had an awful hand dealt to you. My child's a good decade + older than you and I think she got in just under the wire. She got to be a child which, in part, means no politics. Childhood 's when we learn. History. What government is, what it does, and an exam at the end.
Once getting one's sorry ass drafted and shipped to Viet Nam ceased to be an issue, kids in high school didn't particularly notice politics for a long time. Then, in college, voting age attained, most people noticed elections, some got "political" and nobody lost friends or sleep.
Good thing there's always grass to walk upon.
Good man, Prester John
Not a Travels of Manderville fan, my username is a reference to an obscure, perhaps apocryphal tidbit. I am glad you liked the piece (even if it made you sad). I see the bright side. My generation will be the one to rebuild and create.
Hope so.
I'll just say Wilson is far from the worst. Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and maybe a dozen others!
A recent, overdue reevaluation
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/woodrow-wilson-racism-civil-rights/677174/