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 Comments are closed  Blog  American Revolution, and Mary, Another brick in the wall, Berlin Wall, Chinese Revolution, fossil fuels, French revolution, Gordon Gekko, great and beautiful wall, Great Wall of China, human history, medieval warfare, migration, Paul, Pete Seeger, Peter, Peter Paul and Mary, Pink Floyd, plants and animals, pollution, revolution, Russian revolution, shared resources, sustainability, Troy, uranium mining, walled cities, Where have all the flowers gone We have officially entered the “Holiday Season.” I started writing this post on Thanksgiving, which will be followed by Christmas and the start of the New Year. These are supposed to be joyous times. At this point, I have seen a lot of Thanksgivings come and go. For most of my life, it was easy to think of things for which I could truly feel grateful. This year, that’s not the case. Of course, there are things for which I am grateful, but my concerns about the state of our nation have put a damper on my gratitude. This is, . . . → Read More: Thanksgiving, 2017 Comments are closed Blog assassination, Big Enders, Buddhism, Christianity, Christmas, Civil Rights, Donald Trump, global warming, graduate school, holiday season, human history, Islam, Jonathan Swift, joyous times, Korea, Little Enders, Martin Luther King, music, my tribe, New Year, not with a bang but a whimper, political unrest, President Kennedy, range wars, religion, Richard Nixon, Shakespeare, social activism, T.S. Eliot, Thanksgiving, The Hollow Men, Vietnam, Watergate, WWII The title of this blog comes from a Pete Seeger song: The lyrics contain a number of metaphors that apply to the current political situation in the States: First, times and circumstances change. What was once safe doesn’t necessarily remain that way. Second, having a “big fool” set direction may not turn out well. Third (and one of my favorite quotations), “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” which was doubtless based on George Santayana’s original: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Remembering history by itself isn’t sufficient. . . . → Read More: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy Comments are closed Blog amusements, Amusing Ourselves to Death, bathroom bills, Big Muddy, comedies, comedy, crystal blue persuasion, despopts, dictators, famine, games, Genghis Khan, Henry David Thoreau, human history, Julius Caesar, lives of quiet desperation, Mao Zedong, murder mysteries, Neil Postman, Nineteenth century, Pete Seeger, politics, primitive, primitive customs, print, religious freedom, Shakespeare, situation comedies, slavery, superstition, television, the more things change, Tragedies, tribalism, TV, TV's Golden Age, warfare, wars |
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