Hoo, boy, we’re in the same thought bubble. 👍🏻 The concern, of course, is that someone will pop the bubble … probably sooner rather than later. Will we all be enemies eventually? Enemies of the whim of the moment?
I’ve been wondering if there will even be a United States of America for the remainder of our lives. We’re definitely not “united;” but, then again, it doesn’t seem that we ever have been. There have been leaders who strove for that unity — just not the current one whose dementia becomes more apparent every day. He needs to be diagnosed, or at least reined in.
I have much more that could be said, while we still supposedly have freedom of speech, but discretion prevails.
Many years ago, I was studying the history, art and literature of the Weimar Republic at the German university in Munich.
The lead prof, Liane Wuttig, was a survivor of that time having lived as a teenager in Berlin during the social, cultural, economic and political upheaval that marked the period between world wars. She warned us young Americans studying abroad that what happened in Germany could happen in America, too. She said that when all the schools, all the media and all the public conversation were coordinated, and when the same message was repeated in every venue, then everyone gets seduced into uniformity... and mass insanity. She said it happened to her generation in Weimar and it could happen to us Americans, too.
We laughed, of course. We were young. Smart. American. 'We have laws,' we told her. We have the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. We have Democracy.
Back then, I didn't understand Liane Wuttig. Now, I do.
Hoo, boy, we’re in the same thought bubble. 👍🏻 The concern, of course, is that someone will pop the bubble … probably sooner rather than later. Will we all be enemies eventually? Enemies of the whim of the moment?
I’ve been wondering if there will even be a United States of America for the remainder of our lives. We’re definitely not “united;” but, then again, it doesn’t seem that we ever have been. There have been leaders who strove for that unity — just not the current one whose dementia becomes more apparent every day. He needs to be diagnosed, or at least reined in.
I have much more that could be said, while we still supposedly have freedom of speech, but discretion prevails.
Many years ago, I was studying the history, art and literature of the Weimar Republic at the German university in Munich.
The lead prof, Liane Wuttig, was a survivor of that time having lived as a teenager in Berlin during the social, cultural, economic and political upheaval that marked the period between world wars. She warned us young Americans studying abroad that what happened in Germany could happen in America, too. She said that when all the schools, all the media and all the public conversation were coordinated, and when the same message was repeated in every venue, then everyone gets seduced into uniformity... and mass insanity. She said it happened to her generation in Weimar and it could happen to us Americans, too.
We laughed, of course. We were young. Smart. American. 'We have laws,' we told her. We have the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. We have Democracy.
Back then, I didn't understand Liane Wuttig. Now, I do.