JFK's 1960 campaign slogan was: A Time for Greatness. I like to think that it came from the title of my favorite book, A Time for Greatness by Herbert Agar, a polemic about America's decision to stop the Axis. If you've ever encountered the Table Talks of the Axis leader you realize that he refuted the grand vision of Western philosophical idealism. His case was for barbarism. For years I have explored the loss of our government's vision from the era of FDR with the loss in my infancy of our young, heroic, knowledgeable, wise, outspoken leader. Slowly, I began to realize that there was probably an underlying Texas Schoolbook that doubles the refrain of refuting our society's premises. Lately, we have become an Axis power only not yet overtly.
Trying to understand has taken work. I was born in 1960 and saw the 60's / 70's as a youngster. I came to understand both the sway held over the young by intoxicants and the backlash. In reading about all this, I learned that JFK was swung through Tacoma in Fall of 1963, Klondike Gold Rush country, where particularly in Dawson City, there were town prostitution rings and the attending violent censorship that surrounds them. The Carousel Club that produced Jack Ruby was part of a nationwide underworld. Some of those dancing girl images seem to almost precursor HAIR and reckless abandon. What if they were part of an argument, I reasoned, from a Texas Schoolbook?
Maturity towards the powerful wave of feelings and issues involved in these heavy times seems to me made a struggle in part because of how toxic the dismissal of maturity in our affairs has become. It is as if we don't want to be adults, as if it isn't enough to build character strong and sure for example against racism, instead we are told to run riot. It is the leaving of our momentous problems to the children that has made Greta Thunberg's outraged voice so resonant. Our philosophical ethics are being erased in the name of things we believe in, as though some inscrutable hoodwinker has framed the discourse.
Originally Posted by AmericanPig
