>Charles;
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>You brought back memories. I could add a few more! The good old days! :)
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>The "good" thing about 1968 - we could destroy the world seven and one half times with our nuclear weapons. Today we can destroy the world 770 times with our nuclear arsenal. Times have really improved! :)
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>Tom
Yeah, I graduated in 1968 and began the great adventure. Got to be kind of a history tourist. Had the priviledge of seeing some very amazing people attempt some incredible things without putting myself in more danger than at the time made sense ( we do think we are immortal at that age. ) Did get some appreciation of how complex it can all be. Got to step outside the box for while. Learned that people who were very smart and very sincere could see the world through very differnt eyes.
Maybe I'm just mellower, but I don't see our current controversies as historically unique or even very exceptional. And I don't see the public face of history as being more than that - a facade. Arguing about the stuff on the facade changes neither the reality or the direction of what's underneath.
Every age has its stuff, but the river rolls on.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
