Are you sure you're not my alter ego?Dadtodabone wrote:In my youth I was misguided and poked fun at the sensitive/artistic young men who strummed cheap acoustic guitars and sat with the rock breaking young women who wear comfortable shoes, at the coffee shop and adult watering holes. Now that we've all grown and matured for 4 decades after leaving academia behind, I've taken the opportunity to revisit the young man I was and my actions then.
As stated I was misguided, not in my assessment of those young men as objects of ridicule, I still find the opportunity to ridicule them now that they are Congressmen, Senators, University Presidents, Tenured Professors, etc. But in the fact that I didn't consciously recognize that they were and are enemies of the Nation and traditions that I hold dear. I knew on some level that they were the "Other" hence my attitude. Yet I was unable to grasp then that their devotion to self was all encompassing and allowed no place for care or devotion to a greater purpose, our nation, or God.
This study does in a small way validate my personal conclusions. They were then and remain narcissistic grasshoppers, willing to eat the seed, set aside for the next planting, to insure their own well being.
