It never ceases to amaze me how many ignorant people there are in our society. I grew up in 1950’s and 1960’s a world of bigotry, race baiting, hatred and gender bias. Everyone could enjoy the American Dream… as long as they were white and male. Then, along came the 70’s and, with it, a whole generation that began to openly challenge the status quo. We were going to change the world. It was a rock and roll renaissance. We had great plans to fix all of the things that were wrong with society. We were going to legalize pot, find a way to get people to live in racial harmony, give women the right to work at the same job – and get the same pay – as a man. We were tired of war – especially wars that involved sending 100’s of thousands of young men off to a far-away country to fight in a war that virtually nobody in the US supported. We were going to stick it to the man. We were naïve – but we weren’t ignorant. Quite the opposite, actually.
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An America of Ignorance
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It never ceases to amaze me how many ignorant people there are in our society. I grew up in 1950’s and 1960’s a world of bigotry, race baiting, hatred and gender bias. Everyone could enjoy the American Dream… as long as they were white and male. Then, along came the 70’s and, with it, a whole generation that began to openly challenge the status quo. We were going to change the world. It was a rock and roll renaissance. We had great plans to fix all of the things that were wrong with society. We were going to legalize pot, find a way to get people to live in racial harmony, give women the right to work at the same job – and get the same pay – as a man. We were tired of war – especially wars that involved sending 100’s of thousands of young men off to a far-away country to fight in a war that virtually nobody in the US supported. We were going to stick it to the man. We were naïve – but we weren’t ignorant. Quite the opposite, actually.