"Nostalgia just ain't what it used to be!"
First of all, please allow me to welcome you to the first installment in what will probably be an intermittent hobby. I won't bore you with my life story, or how I came to own the keys to the city of Hoboken, or even how I won the Medal of Freedom. That is because, among other things, it is a total fabrication...except the boring life story; that did happen.
I was at work the other day talking about kids and their unmitigated sense of entitlement. as a crowd of 30 and 40 somethings, our collective tone turned to "When I was a kid..." Blahdy, blahdy, blah! When I was a kid, I hated it when people told me that.
While it is valuable to learn from another person's experience, quite often we need to fuck it all up ourselves before we really learn.
Take the USA (please!) The current economic and political climate is not one that is novel. The problems we face are not brand new. As a matter of fact Harry Truman, our 33rd president, tried to push healthcare reform. So did Nixon and Clinton. Now Obama is trying again.
Somebody said "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." I think the problem right now is that nobody is remembering the past. We are having all the same arguments and political hissy fits that we had 10, 40, and 80 years ago.
We need somebody to tell us what it was like in their day.
