Thanks for reading it and thanks for the comment. Yes - ever the enigma. Does the ideology corrupt the practitioner, or the practitioner corrupt the ideology? Someone much smarter than me needs to answer that one.
Interesting rock n roll take on the Boomers! I had that same seat, Sometime you and your brother were in the seats next to me .Seems to me we need to object to a lot more going down today.
We sat exactly right next to each other! As I recall, you, Mitch, and I went to Styx at the fairground when we were about 16 & 17? Our first?
A point I'm trying to make is, yes, there's a lot that's objectionable. And there's a lot that's being objected to that doesn't make sense to me/us. But that is now somebody else's issue. In some ways, WE are being objected to. And that's OK. We pass the baton.
I wondered today, now that Tom Brady retired, would Trump and Biden take the hint?
I agree with octogenarians (Feinstein, Grassley come to mind) moving over and mentoring the next generation. But I don't agree if "passing the baton" means we exit the field entirely (or the stage). I don't think we finished the job. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/07/opinion/older-americans-power.html I stay engaged on climate, on early childhood education, and on local school board politics. I understand that my generation is wealthy in terms of perspective AND time to help deepen dialogue. Pick a hill and still run a flag up it. You'll be helping someone be better.
Hello, Lori! I agree whole-heartedly. I envision staying involved with my businesses, church, and community as long as I can legitimately contribute. I like the "pass the baton" metaphor more after your comment. It is a deliberate thing you do after you've run your leg of a race, but you don't let go of the baton until you should. You also don't hold on after you should let go re: the octogenarians you mention.
Good piece of work. Since I’m sitting here contemplating your references with little else to do, I’m going to make an observation. Marx didn’t kill 25 million Chinese, Mao did. Stalin killed millions of Soviet citizens, it never was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Basically, I think, Marx wanted to understand how humans made their history. Madmen frequently justify their psychotic behavior by referring to someone’s teachings, like Torquemada.
Thanks for reading it and thanks for the comment. Yes - ever the enigma. Does the ideology corrupt the practitioner, or the practitioner corrupt the ideology? Someone much smarter than me needs to answer that one.
Interesting rock n roll take on the Boomers! I had that same seat, Sometime you and your brother were in the seats next to me .Seems to me we need to object to a lot more going down today.
We sat exactly right next to each other! As I recall, you, Mitch, and I went to Styx at the fairground when we were about 16 & 17? Our first?
A point I'm trying to make is, yes, there's a lot that's objectionable. And there's a lot that's being objected to that doesn't make sense to me/us. But that is now somebody else's issue. In some ways, WE are being objected to. And that's OK. We pass the baton.
I wondered today, now that Tom Brady retired, would Trump and Biden take the hint?
I agree with octogenarians (Feinstein, Grassley come to mind) moving over and mentoring the next generation. But I don't agree if "passing the baton" means we exit the field entirely (or the stage). I don't think we finished the job. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/07/opinion/older-americans-power.html I stay engaged on climate, on early childhood education, and on local school board politics. I understand that my generation is wealthy in terms of perspective AND time to help deepen dialogue. Pick a hill and still run a flag up it. You'll be helping someone be better.
Hello, Lori! I agree whole-heartedly. I envision staying involved with my businesses, church, and community as long as I can legitimately contribute. I like the "pass the baton" metaphor more after your comment. It is a deliberate thing you do after you've run your leg of a race, but you don't let go of the baton until you should. You also don't hold on after you should let go re: the octogenarians you mention.
As implied in the NYTimes article, and as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell showed w.r.t. Spotify, codger power!
Good piece of work. Since I’m sitting here contemplating your references with little else to do, I’m going to make an observation. Marx didn’t kill 25 million Chinese, Mao did. Stalin killed millions of Soviet citizens, it never was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Basically, I think, Marx wanted to understand how humans made their history. Madmen frequently justify their psychotic behavior by referring to someone’s teachings, like Torquemada.
Anyway, I really like your essay.
Excellent.