tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post1710308040275938030..comments2023-07-03T08:51:01.209-05:00Comments on What Powderfinger Said . . . Observations on Life in the Dying Empire: Verse UmpteenAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00111660094586126379noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-18342060993544868302009-01-19T11:51:00.000-06:002009-01-19T11:51:00.000-06:00Like you I see the 1960s as the source of many of ...Like you I see the 1960s as the source of many of the ills that we're confronting today. I wish I shared your optimism about the tide of ignorance. I think at some point you reach critical mass with this tide, and we're already there. After that, the momentum is too fierce. <BR/><BR/>Our ignorance is but one of the symptoms of our erosion as a people. I think we both agree that the problems we face ultimately are problems of the American character. It's going to take more than a well-meaning or even virtuous administration in Washington to reform that.<BR/><BR/>But we do need to have people like you around, my friend, to hold up the candle. Thanks for writing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00111660094586126379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184575347466163757.post-35300624961507376592009-01-19T09:34:00.000-06:002009-01-19T09:34:00.000-06:00I don't know. I hope the tide of ignorance is resi...I don't know. I hope the tide of ignorance is resistible.<BR/><BR/>I feel we occupy a fulcrum, and it has been heavily tilted towards ignorance and evil since the Vietnam War.<BR/>(I feel a good deal of the problem came from World War II, a good war that made us love war too much.)<BR/><BR/>I feel we are going to swing the other way soon.How long it will last, who knows?<BR/><BR/>What I fear is the next swing back to evil after this. As a society and economy become more and more complex, the problems and dislocations it undergoes become increasingly more severe, due to that very complexity.<BR/><BR/>No, Abraham, is is not time to flee Ur......not yet.Montaghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017648070522030951noreply@blogger.com