Maggie's Farm

Dr. Bob must have had a bad back nine, blowing a sub par round into bogey territory.

Has he hit the same endlessly written about 60's and it's decimation of the world for the umpteenth time. You betcha, and with extra potent vitriol to embellish his angst. But what is he'd sunk a few more putts and come in with his first par round. Would the 60's have looke so bad? Let's take a look at a few examples.

"We have learned that our government is not to be trusted" Gosh Bob but you're only a few thousand years off on that chorus...men have known that since governments were instituted. Check our Aristotle's six fold classification on governments as a start and work up to the Founding Fathers.

"We have learned not to think, but to feel; not to reason but to react; not to dialogue but to detest; not to take responsibility but to accuse."
Golly Bob there ya go again. I guarantee you we didn't feel our way through Mercury, Gemini, and the Apollo programs, culminating with Neil Armstrong stepping onto the surface of the moon. And then follow that with bringing to the commercial venue the learning of the space program, Microwaves, cell phones, the list is endless, and hey it all took dialogue.

"We have not learned history — at least not any history worth learning. We have not learned reason, or logic, or deduction. We have learned nothing of human nature, of its inherent draw toward evil rather than good, of the necessity of moral restraint and regeneration before such mortal and moral gravity can be overcome. We have not learned the limitation of government nor the risks of its encroaching strangulation of our freedom. We have not learned patience, nor endurance, nor self-control, nor deferred gratification. We have not learned that there are things worth dying for, and therefore there might be something worth living for."

Bob,Bob,Bob....go play right field for a while, you'll do less damage. And BTW you're batting 10th.
It would take too long to straighten out his swing on that last paragraph. However I think we learned a wee bit about the moon,space travel, bad drugs and bad habits.

"We have learned nothing of human nature" Bobby lad, human nature hasn't changed in like forever. The nature that guides men today guided men 4,000 years ago.

This guy is a broken record of what's been written about the 60's for the last ten years...nothing new. Not even close.
Good ole buzz kill Bob...he's the one who never learned a damn thing about history or human behavior.

Actually BD, believe it or not some, think I have an intimacy with rants on occasion.

Mom just said I was high spirited.

or maybe she said, "just wait til your father gets home"

it was all good anyway.

Marianne you may have found the key. I don't know this dude either and I'll grant that the 60's were dynamic but bloviating is a great term to apply.

We may have been brats but we weren't the first nor will we be the last...he should take a look at Europe circa 1848.

The Revolutions of 1848
http://tinyurl.com/2e7pcr

What we learned in the 60's was what other generations learned before we learned it. But like every generation we have the same arrogance they had to believe we uncovered some new.

Learning never stops, the diurnal movement of the Sun guarantees new history, and basic model of mankind hasn't been entirely chromed over with "new man".

The id, ego , and superego are still in vogue even in the face of new insights into their interactions. man just hasn't changed that much in a thousand years.

Buddy, if it's his voice should he use some type of gargle?