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"The thing your teachers may not have told you is how full of hope the late '60s were. Yes, there was violence. ... Plenty of people—good people—died in fishy ways; and plenty went to prison for things they almost certainly did not do. But the times were changing, and many of us thought we were building a new world in the shell of the old."
Painfully true. Deeply saddened that it all resulted in Reagan.
— Oct 23, 2020 10:56AM
Painfully true. Deeply saddened that it all resulted in Reagan.
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"There is more than one way to organize knowledge; and more than one way to formulate truth; and with time and patience, persistence and luck, justice can prevail."
the narrator's Lakota Grandmother, speaking a hopeful truth into being
— Oct 19, 2020 07:46PM
the narrator's Lakota Grandmother, speaking a hopeful truth into being
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"{The Lewis & Clark Expedition} was an epic journey," my grandmother said. "And they found many things which Indian people couldn't remember misplacing, such as the Rocky Mountains."
This is why Eleanor Arnason is unjustly unfamous.
— Oct 18, 2020 10:37AM
This is why Eleanor Arnason is unjustly unfamous.
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And the same goes for Europe I guess. Plenty of signs people were hoping for a sort of colossal collective achievement. It shows even in the architecture, in fiction, in the accounts told by people who worked then...
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P.E. wrote: "And the same goes for Europe I guess. Plenty of signs people were hoping for a sort of colossal collective achievement. It shows even in the architecture, in fiction, in the accounts told by people who worked then..."It was an amazing, revolutionary moment, it felt the way I suspect 1848 did; and ended in much the same whimper. This time, though, in both France and the US, we-the-people have a broad and complete disdain for the state itself, not merely the ruling class.
Be very interesting to see what happens next.
