Are you familiar with the concept of turning points? Every 80 years, a generation dies off, and with it all of the knowledge, experience, and wisdom.
Todays Gen Y and Z, grew up in world where the trials of the likes of MLK and Malcolm X, are a historic footnote
The world they live in is a world of cell phones, computer games, hanging out, even black men, dating and marrying white girls, the stories of Emmett Till. lynching, Jim Crow, red lining mean nothing to them but history, as remote as the battle of Cowpens, Bunkers Hill or Valley Forge.
They don't see the full force of bigotry and the hard climb up, nor do they realize that they are still climbing, they are lulled and senses dulled into thinking that they have arrived.
It's an illusion.
Just like everyone they got suckered with toys and money, a little schmooze and pretense.
Remember Trump hauled a couple of rapers on stage in that park in NY, and he schmoozed with Muslims in a halal deli and met with a couple of Imams, and how they now have buyers remorse.
I wonder if there is buyers remorse. humans have difficulty admitting that they made a poor choice.
Just like farmers who went bankrupt because of Trump’s tariffs. They are upset, but don’t blame Trump and still support him, mostly because of the cultural war.
The alternative ways to see our history, starting with paragraph 5, is both simple and brilliant. As a retired therapist, the reframing is familiar. Giving an aggrieved body a new way to perceive their reality is a powerful tool for possible change. But to see the tool used in a national/political forum is unusual but oh so welcome. Great work, and thought provoking as usual.
Are you familiar with the concept of turning points? Every 80 years, a generation dies off, and with it all of the knowledge, experience, and wisdom.
Todays Gen Y and Z, grew up in world where the trials of the likes of MLK and Malcolm X, are a historic footnote
The world they live in is a world of cell phones, computer games, hanging out, even black men, dating and marrying white girls, the stories of Emmett Till. lynching, Jim Crow, red lining mean nothing to them but history, as remote as the battle of Cowpens, Bunkers Hill or Valley Forge.
They don't see the full force of bigotry and the hard climb up, nor do they realize that they are still climbing, they are lulled and senses dulled into thinking that they have arrived.
It's an illusion.
Just like everyone they got suckered with toys and money, a little schmooze and pretense.
Remember Trump hauled a couple of rapers on stage in that park in NY, and he schmoozed with Muslims in a halal deli and met with a couple of Imams, and how they now have buyers remorse.
I wonder if there is buyers remorse. humans have difficulty admitting that they made a poor choice.
Just like farmers who went bankrupt because of Trump’s tariffs. They are upset, but don’t blame Trump and still support him, mostly because of the cultural war.
The alternative ways to see our history, starting with paragraph 5, is both simple and brilliant. As a retired therapist, the reframing is familiar. Giving an aggrieved body a new way to perceive their reality is a powerful tool for possible change. But to see the tool used in a national/political forum is unusual but oh so welcome. Great work, and thought provoking as usual.