[Biggirl]

This all goes back to the feel good 60s.

[Mmmike]

Long before the feel-good 60s you had the creation of public schools to harvest up-and-coming generations for purposes of money and ideology, by men who saw themselves as gods. Meanwhile the rest of society was carefully conditioned to look at this as normal, as "no big deal", as "our shared civic project".

Look at what happened just before the feel-good 60s: the Space Race was on, and the Mighty State was gung-ho instrumentalist about the "crop" that it was "breeding" for engineering and science. But the very practice of institutionalizing and "breeding" kids was de-Americanizing them. The adults were encouraged to cheer this on and many did. Straightforwardly coercive strong-state dynamics all the way.

[sparklite2]

The Twenties had a major societal impact followed forty years later by the Sixties. Forty years after the Sixties, we got 9/ll. I wonder what new direction was killed in that cradle.

[Great Awakening]

I was feeling pretty good in 1963-4 ‘til I got drafted after dropping out of college. Missed Woodstock. Damn.
Ethics (reality) caught up to my immorality.
This was shortly after JFK assassination.
Most were not even born.
Is 9/11 more relevant today?
What have we forgotten?