Our era vs. our parents'
I was thinking out loud with a friend (you know who you are) the other day about the weird things we've (meaning my post-WWII so-called "boomer" generation) lived through in our time: assassinations, 9/11, this (COVID-19). Sleepless during the night, I started thinking about my parents' era and how they lived through events of deep social inspiration: the Depression and social movements of the 1930s and '40s, World War II (fight against fascism).* Then I started to think more about it. They had their weird times too: McCarthy period being one. And we had our deeply soul-inspiring things too: the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement being two. Of course their era overlaps with ours. What stands out to me, though, is World War II and everything connected to it. *Oh, I forgot about the Bolshevik Revolution and its ripples through time and space. Let's see if I can make a timeline/chart: soul-inspiring in red, weird in blue Us (adult years): 195...
