He who has not lived in the eighteenth century before the Revolution does not know the sweetness of life and can not imagine that there can be happiness in life.
My thoughts precisely for those who had the misfortune to be born a few decades after me. The ongoing politicization of all aspects of life has taken a lot of the sweetness, daffiness and innocence out of life. We do not have to live the way we are forced to now. Life has always been filled with pain and immense difficulties in this aptly named Vale of Tears, but the completely dysfunctional society we have now is a man made disaster. Fortunately what man has done man can undo. A salute to better days than these, past and future.
My generation is the pivot. When I entered school, life was pretty much close to what it would have been for kids twenty years earlier. With a few cultural flourishes that wouldn’t have been imagined then. By the time I graduated, we have already the foundations of what we see here. By the time I graduated college, it was in full swing. I can’t fathom how different the world is for my youngest.